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River Skerne polluted by sewage 323 times in 2025 - lasting 1,143 hours

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Totals for River Skerne in 2025
21 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
323 sewage dumps
1,143 h duration
That's 1.59 months. 6.2 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Skerne TRIMDON VILLAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WO 68 340 84.35
Northumbrian Water River Skerne FISHBURN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 29 184 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Skerne SOUTH PARK CSO DL035 30 150 87.8
Northumbrian Water River Skerne TRAVELLERS GREEN CSO (SE015) 43 149 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Skerne WHESSOE SPS 12 66 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne FISHBURN BRIDGE CSO 27 48 92.2
Northumbrian Water River Skerne VICTORIA EMBANKMENT - POLAM LANE 11 45 98.8
Northumbrian Water River Skerne BRADBURY STW 11 41 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne NEASHAM ROAD CSO (Y5) 29 30 92
Northumbrian Water River Skerne DARLINGTON CROWN STREET NO 34 CSO 11 29 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne JUBILEE ROAD CSO 15 27 66.4
Northumbrian Water River Skerne AYCLIFFE (STEPHENSON WAY) PS 5 20 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y2) 6 2 87.6
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y3) 3 1 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Skerne NEASHAM ROAD (Y4) CSO 3 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Skerne VICTORIA ROAD CSO 2 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne CSO YARM ROAD DL18 4 0 93.1
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y6) 1 0 82.4
Northumbrian Water River Skerne EASSON ROAD/DODDS STREET CSO 3 0 98.8
Northumbrian Water River Skerne REAR FORSTER ST/EASSON ROAD CSO 2 0 89
Northumbrian Water River Skerne DEAN ROAD CSO 8 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne ASKRIGG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERF 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne FORSTER STREET/EASSON ROAD CSO 0 0 96.1
Northumbrian Water River Skerne WELL BANK CSO 0 0 93.4

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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