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River Tyne Estuary polluted by sewage 253 times in 2023 - lasting 680 hours

Totals for River Tyne Estuary in 2023

6 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

253 sewage dumps
680 h duration

That's 28.33 days. 4.9 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tyne Estuary 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 Tyne Estuary	SILVER LONNEN CSO (NC030)	93	329	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO	34	181	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	WOOD GROVE CSO (NC029)	73	114	80.2
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO	36	40	96.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	CSO AT CHURCH DENE	16	15	89.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	SWADDLES HOLE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	THE BOATHOUSE SPS	0	0	94
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO	0	0	0

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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