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North Sea polluted by sewage 1,840 times in 2025 - lasting 8,642 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 139 866 99.85
Northumbrian Water North Sea LIMEKILN GILL SAMPLING PT. FOR EA18 32 543 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MARSKE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 99 536 99.95
Northumbrian Water North Sea AMBLE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 91 522 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea BILLINGHAM STW 105 479 99.42
Northumbrian Water North Sea RAF BOULMER SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 29 453 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 72 432 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea SKINNINGROVE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 67 421 99.83
Northumbrian Water North Sea BOULMER SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 43 394 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea SCREMERSTON NO 2 SPS 44 376 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS 70 279 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea LAKES CSO 46 263 77.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea AMBLE HARBOUR PUMPING STATION 31 242 97.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea CRESSWELL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 31 237 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEATON CAREW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 68 235 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea SOUTH ACRES COMMINUTER, CRASTER 61 217 99.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea EASINGTON OUTFALL 55 180 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MITCHELL AVENUE SEWAGE PUMPING STAN 43 176 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEATON SLUICE PS 20 170 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRUS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 35 167 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAGDALENE FIELDS NORTH CSO 112 142 93.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea BERWICK P S NO 7 (MAGDALENE FIELDSN 73 134 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAINSFORTH TERRACE PS 35 129 31.1
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEAHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 25 123 98.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAGDALEN FIELDS SOUTH COMBINED SEWW 67 118 73.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea GRANVILLE TCE SSO 24 95 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea HORDEN STW 27 89 98.05
Northumbrian Water North Sea CSO SALTERFEN SU47 42 68 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea BEADNELL HARBOUR SEWAGE PUMPING STN 23 63 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRIERDENE PUMPING STATION 28 61 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea RYHOPE SSO 30 48 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CRIMDON PARK PUMPING STATION 6 46 80.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STEEL PS 12 42 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea THE STRAY STORM RETENTION TANK 5 33 95.1
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRIDGE STREET PUMPING STATION 10 30 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEW MARSKE METHODIST CHURCH 19 24 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea BYDALE SCHOOL CSO 18 23 90.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea HOWLE BECK OVERFLOWS (MARSKE CEMETE 2 23 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEW COATHAM CSO REF L73 9 21 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea DUNSTANBURGH COMMINUTOR STATION 12 20 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea HOLY ISLAND STW 9 20 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea GLENTOWER GROVE SPS 3 19 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea GRANGETOWN CSO 10 15 56.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea HARBOUR SPS 12 14 92.1
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING OSWY DRIVE CSO 11 9 99.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea STATION ROAD CSO 3 4 92.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING STREET SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 7 4 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea BAMBURGH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 3 4 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea DERWENT WATER TERRACE CSO BT022 4 4 99.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE) 3 3 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea THORPE STREET SPS 2 2 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAIN STREET SPITTAL CSO 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea HARTLEY CARAVAN PARK PS 2 0 93.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING OSWY DRIVE CSO 1 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 2 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea SHARPNESS POINT PS 1 0 46
Northumbrian Water North Sea NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION 0 0 89.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea DENE HOLME OUTFALL 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea ALBION TERRACE STORM RETENTION 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea HEUGH ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea JOLLY FISHERMAN CSO 0 0 92
Northumbrian Water North Sea LOW HAUXLEY PS 0 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea ST AIDANS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 91.1
Northumbrian Water North Sea OAK ROAD CSO 0 0 83.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea WARRENBY SEA OUTFALL 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 94.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO 0 0 96.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea EAST HENDON ROAD CSO 0 0 91.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63 0 0 95.1
Northumbrian Water North Sea ROKER STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEABURN NORTH CSO 0 0 98.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEABURN SOUTH CSO 0 0 89.7
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 North Sea WATTS SLOPE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A56) 0 0 100

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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