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Totals for River Tyne in 2025

29 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,326 sewage dumps
1,231 h duration

That's 1.71 months. On average 3.6 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	DENTON ROAD CSO NC027	78	185	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105	48	143	99.75
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	CLARA VALE SPS	36	120	98.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	CORONATION ST CSO	19	111	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO	22	110	35.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	BROOMHAUGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	9	86	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	ACOMB CSO	67	77	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	WELL BANK CSO TD008	40	68	95.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SWINBURNE STREET CSO	50	67	91
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	ROSE STREET CSO	23	66	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	WOODLANDS PUMPING STATION	17	42	91.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	MARY MAGDALENE NO3 CSO (TD037)	504	35	96.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO	17	34	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HAUGH LANE CSO	5	26	62.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	MANOR GARDENS CSO	15	15	94
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HOWDON ROAD CSO (NTY 040)	7	11	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	PHILLIPSON STREET ROSEHILL CSO	17	6	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	REYROLLE SEWER (SOUTH) CSO	21	6	98.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	EAST STREET WAS SWINBURN ST END CSO	13	5	83.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	BRIDGE END COTTAGES CSO	9	1	96.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	ST HELENS LANE CSO	288	1	91.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	DENTON DENE NORTH OF WEST ROAD CSO	7	1	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	UNION QUAY CSO	2	1	89.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS	4	0	85.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	TYNE STREET SPS	2	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	CSO OUTSIDE MILKWELL COTTAGES	2	0	98.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	RIVERSDALE ROAD CSO	2	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	QUAYSIDE (HILLGATE STREET CSO)	1	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO	1	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	GREENSIDE CSO	0	0	84.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	MID TYNE SEWERAGE SCHEME CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	OUTLET LANE CSO NO.2	0	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SPRINGFIELD COTTAGES CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	FAIRFIELD INDUSTRIAL PARK SPS	0	0	96.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2	0	0	89.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	STATION ROAD/WHITE STREET CSO	0	0	97

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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