Wear Estuary polluted by sewage 63 times in 2025 - lasting 341 hours

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Totals for Wear Estuary in 2025
4 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
63 sewage dumps
341 h duration
That's 2.03 weeks. 1.2 times a week, on average
Places along Wear Estuary

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary ST PETERS PUMPING STATION OUTFALL N 15 178 100
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary BODLEWELL LANE CSO 24 107 83.6
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary POTTERY LANE PS 9 42 99.8
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary PRIESTLEY CRESCENT CSO 15 12 100

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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