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Langley Beck, polluted by sewage 87 times in 2025 - lasting 347 hours

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Totals for Langley Beck, in 2025
5 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
87 sewage dumps
347 h duration
That's 2.07 weeks. 1.7 times a week, on average
Places along Langley Beck,

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Langley Beck, in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Langley Beck TRIMDON COLLIERY SPS 33 146 99.9
Northumbrian Water Langley Beck, OLD CLEATLAM STW 12 98 98.9
Northumbrian Water Langley Beck STAINDROP SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 9 59 100
Northumbrian Water Langley Beck LANGLEY BECK CSO 26 42 92.1
Northumbrian Water Langley Beck STAINDROP SSO 7 1 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. 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.

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