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Moors Burn polluted by sewage 59 times in 2025 - lasting 93 hours

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Totals for Moors Burn in 2025
5 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
59 sewage dumps
93 h duration
That's 3.88 days. 1.1 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Moors Burn

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013 23 59 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO 17 19 100
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO 16 13 100
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn OSMAN TERRACE CSO 2 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO 0 0 99.4

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.

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