River Don polluted by sewage 577 times in 2023 - lasting 3,850 hours

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Totals for River Don in 2023
13 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
577 sewage dumps
3,850 h duration
That's 5.35 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Don 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 River Don SOUTH SHIELDS INTERCEPTOR BS/104 128 1,273 100
Northumbrian Water River Don TYNESIDE CSO B5/201 111 1,030 100
Northumbrian Water River Don STATION ROAD CSO G020 78 756 98.9
Northumbrian Water River Don ROMAN ROAD CSO 60 314 98.9
Northumbrian Water River Don CSO AT BEDESWAY 68 296 100
Northumbrian Water River Don BROOKE AVENUE (NO20) STY049 CSO 54 80 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Don EDEN WALK CSO 41 54 99
Northumbrian Water River Don HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION 5 21 96.7
Northumbrian Water River Don LANCHESTER AVENUE CSO 14 12 90.6
Northumbrian Water River Don REAR 3 ERNEST STREET CSO 11 6 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Don JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 23 4 1 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Don BOLDON COLLIERY SOUTH (N0'7) CSO 1 1 10.6
Northumbrian Water River Don JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 20 2 0 91.5
Northumbrian Water River Don REAR OF 92 & 94 CHARLES STREET CSO 0 0 94.8
Northumbrian Water River Don BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO 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. 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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