North Tyne polluted by sewage 182 times in 2025 - lasting 613 hours

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Totals for North Tyne in 2025
5 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
182 sewage dumps
613 h duration
That's 3.65 weeks. 3.5 times a week, on average
Constituencies along North Tyne
Places along North Tyne

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water North Tyne HUMSHAUGH STW 56 282 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Tyne FALSTONE AND STANNERSBURN PS 48 112 99.4
Northumbrian Water North Tyne BUTTERYHAUGH PS 15 105 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Tyne FALSTONE & STANNERSBURN SEWAGE TREA 8 62 79.7
Northumbrian Water North Tyne WALL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 55 49 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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