Water company · North East
Recent spills
Serves the North East and parts of Essex and Suffolk. Major rivers: Tyne, Wear, Tees.
Northumbrian Water operates 1,578 monitored storm overflows. 30 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 20 weeks across 956 events on average. The Truth Engine has 80 open flags against them right now.
1,578
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
30
Monitors offline
80
Open flags
239
Spills · last 7 days
20 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
1.1 h
Avg event length · 30 days
9
Spills · last 24 hours
17,313
spill events
25,862h
cumulative discharge
18 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2023-01-31
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Northumbrian Water averaged 2.1h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.4h per overflow. ranked 5 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most Northumbrian Water overflows discharging into them.