Water company · North East
Currently spilling
Serves the North East and parts of Essex and Suffolk. Major rivers: Tyne, Wear, Tees.
Northumbrian Water operates 1,576 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 47 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 7 years across 2,392 events on average. The Truth Engine has 215 open flags against them right now.
1,576
Storm overflows
1
Active right now
47
Monitors offline
215
Open flags
598
Spills · last 7 days
7 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
31.4 h
Avg event length · 30 days
339
Spills · last 24 hours
11,462
spill events
+8390% vs prior 12m
1,793,556h
cumulative discharge
+2482508% vs prior 12m
13 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2023-01-31
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Northumbrian Water averaged 38.9h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 23.6h per overflow. ranked 8 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.