North Sea polluted by sewage 2,583 times in 2023 - lasting 12,902 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2023
66 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
2,583 sewage dumps
12,902 h duration
That's 1.49 years! On average 7.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea 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 North Sea RAF BOULMER SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 58 948 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea AMBLE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 166 872 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea MARSKE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 146 813 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea SCREMERSTON NO 2 SPS 79 787 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEAHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 64 732 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 102 710 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS 119 633 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRUS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 74 627 99.95
Northumbrian Water North Sea BOULMER SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 61 525 97.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea SKINNINGROVE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 77 437 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea BILLINGHAM STW 162 408 98.42
Northumbrian Water North Sea SOUTH ACRES COMMINUTER, CRASTER 78 375 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEATON CAREW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 91 374 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea LIMEKILN GILL SAMPLING PT. FOR EA18 25 355 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 80 337 35.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEATON SLUICE PS 30 316 99.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea EASINGTON OUTFALL 64 311 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea HORDEN STW 73 307 94.05
Northumbrian Water North Sea LAKES CSO 51 271 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea BERWICK P S NO 7 (MAGDALENE FIELDSN 87 242 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO 63 236 75.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAGDALENE FIELDS NORTH CSO 69 176 90.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAGDALEN FIELDS SOUTH COMBINED SEWW 73 168 82.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea AMBLE HARBOUR PUMPING STATION 24 148 88.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRIERDENE PUMPING STATION 48 145 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CRIMDON PARK PUMPING STATION 18 139 83.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea RYHOPE SSO 52 131 95.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STEEL PS 32 126 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION 27 123 95.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea MITCHELL AVENUE SEWAGE PUMPING STAN 31 107 98.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63 50 98 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE) 14 96 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea CRESSWELL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 18 79 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea HOLY ISLAND STW 21 74 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRIDGE STREET PUMPING STATION 27 70 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea GRANVILLE TCE SSO 20 69 55.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea HOWLE BECK OVERFLOWS (MARSKE CEMETE 5 59 99.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea THORPE STREET SPS 32 56 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea SHARPNESS POINT PS 6 46 70.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea GRANGETOWN CSO 42 44 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea THE STRAY STORM RETENTION TANK 7 41 96.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea BEADNELL HARBOUR SEWAGE PUMPING STN 21 38 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea DUNSTANBURGH COMMINUTOR STATION 49 33 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea BYDALE SCHOOL CSO 21 32 99.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea DERWENT WATER TERRACE CSO BT022 11 28 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEW COATHAM CSO REF L73 16 27 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEW MARSKE METHODIST CHURCH 15 20 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING STREET SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 6 20 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS 7 18 41.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea BEADNELL CAR PARK SEWAGE PUMPING SN 11 16 17.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea STATION ROAD CSO 9 5 98.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING OSWY DRIVE CSO 10 5 99.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEABURN SOUTH CSO 2 4 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 7 3 89.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea MINI GOLF CSO 4 3 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea DUKES WALK CSO (NTY031) (A63) 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEABURN NORTH CSO 2 2 99.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAINSFORTH TERRACE PS 5 2 93.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea LOW HAUXLEY PS 2 2 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea ST AIDANS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 0 81.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING OSWY DRIVE CSO 2 0 98.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea BROWNS POINT CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAIN STREET SPITTAL CSO 3 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea GLENTOWER GROVE SPS 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION 3 0 22.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea HARTLEY CARAVAN PARK PS 2 0 92.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea DENE HOLME OUTFALL 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water North Sea ALBION TERRACE STORM RETENTION 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea BAMBURGH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea HARBOUR SPS 0 0 14.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea JOLLY FISHERMAN CSO 0 0 29.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea HEUGH ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea OAK ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea WARRENBY SEA OUTFALL 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea EAST HENDON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea CSO SALTERFEN SU47 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water North Sea ROKER STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 0 0 37.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea NORTH PARADE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A52) 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NORTH POINT CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea WATTS SLOPE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A56) 0 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea DUKES WALK CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea PERCY ROAD HIGH LEVEL CSO 0 0 92.7

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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