Backstone Burn polluted by sewage 74 times in 2023 - lasting 102 hours

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Totals for Backstone Burn in 2023
4 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
74 sewage dumps
102 h duration
That's 4.25 days. 1.4 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Backstone Burn

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Backstone Burn in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn CHURCH ROAD CSO 57 91 98.9
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn ST MARYS PRIMARY SCHOOL CSO 11 7 95
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn REAR 39 CUTLERS HALL ROAD 5 2 99.2
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn CONSETT OAP HALL CSO 1 1 92.9
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn QUEENSWAY CSO 0 0 99.9

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. This 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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