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

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

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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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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