River South Tyne polluted by sewage 299 times in 2023 - lasting 1,355 hours

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Totals for River South Tyne in 2023
10 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
299 sewage dumps
1,355 h duration
That's 1.88 months. 5.8 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River South Tyne

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River South Tyne 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 South Tyne HAYDON BRIDGE STW 53 674 94
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne THE OLD VICARAGE CSO 65 228 99.5
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne ALSTON EJECTOR STATION CSO 31 186 16.6
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne FOURSTONES STW 26 169 93.9
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne MELKRIDGE STW 64 33 100
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne OLD TYNE BRIDGE CSO 50 31 99.8
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne SLAGGYFORD SPS 7 29 99.7
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne THE FIRS CSO ED003 1 2 27.7
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne ST AIDENS PARK CSO 1 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water River South Tyne LANYTYS LONNEN CSO 1 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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