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Seaton Burn polluted by sewage 125 times in 2025 - lasting 224 hours

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Totals for Seaton Burn in 2025
15 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
125 sewage dumps
224 h duration
That's 1.33 weeks. 2.4 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Seaton Burn

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn MILL INN A SSO 11 107 99.4
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn NEW MARE CLOSE FARM CSO 22 61 67
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn KLONDYKE CSO 25 22 99.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn NORTH GOSFORTH CSO 13 21 99.4
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn WESTBOURNE ESTATE SSO 18 5 91.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SOUTH OF ROOKWOOD CSO NTY 003 7 1 99.8
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SEAHAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL SSO 10 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SEGHILL CSO 6 0 92.8
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn NORTHSIDE PLACE CSO 2 0 96.6
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn GLEBE ESTATE CSO 3 0 94.1
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SIMONSIDE CSO 3 0 97.5
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn OWEN BRANNIGAN DRIVE CSO 2 0 98.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn ANNITSFORD BRIDGE CSO 1 0 32.6
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn ANNITSFORD BRIDGE CSO 1 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SIMONSIDE CSO 1 0 99
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn DUDLEY FIRST SCHOOL CSO 0 0 99.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn FERN DRIVE CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn GREEN CRESCENT CSO (NTY 006) 0 0 97.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn HOLYWELL P.S. 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn LOVE AVENUE COTTAGES CSO (NTY 009) 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn WANSBECK ROAD CSO (NTY 007) 0 0 69.9

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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