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Willington (County Durham)

Polluted by sewage 373 times in 2025 lasting 2,333 hours

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Totals for Willington (County Durham) in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
373 sewage dumps
2,333 hours duration
That's 3.24 months. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

Constituency for Willington (County Durham)

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Willington (County Durham) 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 Wear NEWFIELD STW 96 697 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear BYERS GREEN PUMPING STATION 53 600 99.9
Northumbrian Water Holy Well Burn SUNNYBROW SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 58 460 94.8
Northumbrian Water Wear WILLINGTON STW 37 376 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Wear LOW WILLINGTON PARK CSO 37 84 98.3
Northumbrian Water Wear CSO WV80 DISUSED STW HUNWICK 35 56 100
Northumbrian Water Wear RUSSEL PLACE CSO 21 48 96.3
Northumbrian Water Willington Burn GARDNER AVENUE CSO 9 4 99.3
Northumbrian Water Strait The WEAR VIEW A CSO SE001 6 2 99.8
Northumbrian Water Park House Gill OAKENSHAW CSO 4 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Seasonally Dry To River Wear NEWFIELD FARM CSO (NEW FIELD CSO 1) 8 1 97
Northumbrian Water Willington Burn HUNWICK LANE CSO 2 0 89.8
Northumbrian Water Unnamed Beck Rvr Wear CSO WV79 ROUGH LEA LANE 5 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water Strait, Culverted Watercrs WEAR VIEW B CSO 2 0 96.4

Data Sources & Accuracy

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

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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