Polluted by sewage 69 times in 2025 lasting 156 hours
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Whitley Bay 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 | Brierdene Burn | BEEHIVE CSO | 35 | 94 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | BRIERDENE PUMPING STATION | 28 | 61 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Seaton Burn | SIMONSIDE CSO | 3 | 0 | 97.5 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | HARTLEY CARAVAN PARK PS | 2 | 0 | 93.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Seaton Burn | SIMONSIDE CSO | 1 | 0 | 99 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | BROWNS POINT CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | DUKES WALK CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | DUKES WALK CSO (NTY031) (A63) | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | MINI GOLF CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | NORTH PARADE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A52) | 0 | 0 | 67.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | NORTH POINT CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | PERCY ROAD HIGH LEVEL CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Brierdene Burn | TEN ACRE FARM COMBINED SEWER OVERFL | 0 | 0 | 99.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | WATTS SLOPE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A56) | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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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