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Northumbrian Water

Serves the North East and parts of Essex and Suffolk. Major rivers: Tyne, Wear, Tees.

Northumbrian Water operates 1,575 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 49 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 25.4 years across 1,620 events on average. The Truth Engine has 384 open flags against them right now.

1,575

Storm overflows

1

Active right now

49

Monitors offline

384

Open flags

405

Spills · last 7 days

25.4 years

Cumulative discharge · 30 days

2 days

Avg event length · 30 days

21

Spills · last 24 hours

Spill record· last 12 months · network-wide

8,151

spill events

+8665% vs prior 12m

571,424h

cumulative discharge

+864118% vs prior 12m

7 weeks

longest single event (all time)

2023-01-31

first event on record

Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Northumbrian Water averaged 141.3h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.8h per overflow. ranked 7 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.

Most-discharged-into watercourses

The 12 watercourses with the most Northumbrian Water overflows discharging into them.

Currently spilling· 1

  1. 01

    Tributary of Black Burn

    NWL00270 · spilling for 12.6 h

Truth Engine flags against Northumbrian Water· 25 open

Monitors offline· 49