River Wear polluted by sewage 1,209 times in 2022 - lasting 4,624 hours

© OpenStreetMap contributors
Contains OS Data © Crown copyright & database right 2021-2022
© Top of the Poops 2021-2023
Totals for River Wear in 2022
42 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,209 sewage dumps
4,624 h duration
That's 6.42 months. On average 3.3 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wear in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page - This is because there is an invalid grid reference on the pollution consent - so we don't know where the CSO is. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Wear WITTON-LE-WEAR PS 66 718 78.5
Northumbrian Water River Wear SUNDERLAND BRIDGE STW 82 650 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear PITHOUSE LANE CSO (WEST RAINTON 5) 32 546 38.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear LOW WADSWORTH PS 47 518 98
Northumbrian Water River Wear LINDOM AVENUE CSO 24 181 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear BARKERS HAUGH NO 8 CSO 57 164 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear DEPTFORD PUMPING STATION 49 138 98.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear SANDS SYPHON SSO 30 120 27.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear FRANKLAND LANE CSO 42 116 62.5
Northumbrian Water River Wear BYERS GREEN PUMPING STATION 21 113 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear ELVET SYPHON CSO 51 103 94.5
Northumbrian Water River Wear SHIELDS ROAD CSO 41 99 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear HUNTSHIELD FORD CSO 29 94 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Wear LOW SOUTHWICK PUMPING STATION 56 82 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear PARK ROAD CSO 28 82 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION 10 78 93.5
Northumbrian Water River Wear STATION ROAD CSO 56 76 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear GOLDEN LION SPS 23 72 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear LOW WILLINGTON PARK CSO 36 71 95.3
Northumbrian Water River Wear SUNDERLAND BRIDGE CSO 36 67 96
Northumbrian Water River Wear STANHOPE SWIMMING POOL CSO 50 63 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear WESTGATE CSO 20 56 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Wear ESCOMB SPS 13 52 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear BARKERS HAUGH CSO NO. 10 31 51 99.2
Northumbrian Water River Wear PALLION PUMPING STATION 40 37 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear WALKERGATE DURHAM CSO 14 35 39.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear BONDISLE WAY CSO 35 29 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear SCOTCH ISLE FARM CSO 20 24 88.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear WELLINGTON LANE PUMPING STATION 18 24 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Wear CASTLETOWN WAY SPS 14 21 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear MILLBURNGATE CSO 6 20 64.85
Northumbrian Water River Wear RIVERSIDE (BUTTS CRESCENT) CSO 29 20 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO 23 17 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Wear COX GREEN PUMPING STATION 2 17 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear BEVERLEY GARDENS CSO 17 17 97.6
Northumbrian Water River Wear PARK ROAD NORTH CSO 7 16 56.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear SHINCLIFFE (A177) CSO 12 5 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear CHURCH STREET DU026 10 4 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Wear ROSE TERRACE CSO 15 4 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Wear CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO 9 3 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear VINOVIUM CSO NO A9 4 1 97.8
Northumbrian Water River Wear BARKERS HAUGH NO 5 CSO 4 1 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear PARK ROAD CSO WV41 0 0 70.2
Northumbrian Water River Wear BINCHESTER PLANTATION CSO 0 0 93.8
Northumbrian Water River Wear WADDINGTON STREET CSO 0 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Wear WOLSINGHAM STW 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

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.