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River Tees polluted by sewage 780 times in 2025 - lasting 4,001 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Tees MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE SEWAGE TREATM 81 759 93.65
Northumbrian Water River Tees PORTRACK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 110 651 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tees MIDDLETON AIRPORT STORM TW 42 579 98
Northumbrian Water River Tees CLOCKWOOD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 57 412 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tees GAINFORD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 43 253 92.25
Northumbrian Water River Tees PORT CLARENCE EAST PUMPING STATION 30 216 94.2
Northumbrian Water River Tees MIDDLETON ONE ROW CSO 38 200 99.2
Northumbrian Water River Tees BISHOP STREET NORTH SSO 69 195 95.93
Northumbrian Water River Tees WHORLTON STW 19 157 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tees BARNARD CASTLE STW 29 136 99.85
Northumbrian Water River Tees HURWORTH PLACE SPS 23 61 59.4
Northumbrian Water River Tees ACKLAM STREET OUTFALL 44 60 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees ROMALDKIRK SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS 24 53 99.55
Northumbrian Water River Tees WINSTON STW 45 44 97.5
Northumbrian Water River Tees PORT CLARENCE WEST PS OUTFALL 7 38 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees AISLABY QUAY SPS 4 38 94.1
Northumbrian Water River Tees DEMESNES MILL CSO 20 25 98
Northumbrian Water River Tees BARNARD CASTLE STW 16 23 99.3
Northumbrian Water River Tees VULCAN STREET OUTFALL 8 23 90.4
Northumbrian Water River Tees ATLAS WYND SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 13 18 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tees SNOWDON ROAD PS 23 15 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tees THE LENDINGS (STARTFORTH) SPS 6 15 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees GALGATE CSO 14 14 96.6
Northumbrian Water River Tees CSO AT REAR OF 1 RIVER TERRACE 4 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees MAYFAIR ROAD CSO 3 0 93
Northumbrian Water River Tees YARM BRIDGE CSO 6 0 94.7
Northumbrian Water River Tees TOWER STREET CSO 1 0 95.25
Northumbrian Water River Tees CALIFORNIA ROW CSO 1 0 98.1
Northumbrian Water River Tees A CSO AT SMITHS DOCK ROAD 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees STAPLETON SPS 0 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tees YARM ROAD / MUIRFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 94

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.

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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