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Tees polluted by sewage 176 times in 2025 - lasting 473 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Tees STRESSHOLME STW 30 187 100
Northumbrian Water Tees WEST STREET P STN SSO 9 48 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tees TEESBANK AVENUE CSO 15 43 100
Northumbrian Water Tees CSO AT GREEN LANE 23 39 95
Northumbrian Water Tees NEASHAM ROAD PUMPING STATION 17 38 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tees NEASHAM EJECTOR STATION SSO 6 21 74.1
Northumbrian Water Tees OVINGTON STW 21 21 71.8
Northumbrian Water Tees GRAY LANE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 22 19 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tees CASTLETON WALK CSO 12 18 96.5
Northumbrian Water Tees EDINBURGH DRIVE CSO 7 18 95
Northumbrian Water Tees STRAIT LANE CSO 10 11 94.3
Northumbrian Water Tees REAR OF RABY ROAD STORM SEWAGE OVER 1 3 99
Northumbrian Water Tees BLACKWELL SCAR PS 2 1 87.6
Northumbrian Water Tees TEESSIDE HIGH SCHOOL PS 1 0 94.2
Northumbrian Water Tees DEMESNES MILL NO 3 CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tees EGGLESTON STW SSO 0 0 95.3
Northumbrian Water Tees NEWHOLME C.S.O. 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.

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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