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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Whickham in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.
Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumbrian Water | River Derwent | MARKET LANE CSO | 76 | 368 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Derwent | RIVERSIDEWAY CSO | 29 | 195 | 74.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn | GELLESFIELD CSO | 52 | 177 | 59 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne | MARKET LANE CSO | 51 | 177 | 98.5 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne | METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7) | 29 | 93 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Derwent | JUNCTION OF HEXHAM RD & | 39 | 61 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Derwent | OLD DERWENT BRIDGE CSO | 4 | 3 | 97.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Derwent Mill Race | JUNC OF CLAVERING RD & SWALWEL BANK | 9 | 1 | 99.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn Via Sw Sewer | WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE CSO | 5 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Derwent Mill Race | CLAVERING RD & RUSKIN RD | 2 | 0 | 88.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | Derwent Estuary | SHIBDON ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 98.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn | BEECH STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.5 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn | KINGSWAY/PRINCESS STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 74.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn | NAPIER COURT CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn | SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 97.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Culverted Section Black Burn | SUNNISIDE CSO | 0 | 0 | 86.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Black Burn | WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO | 0 | 0 | 98.6 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API
Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.
Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.
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