Water company · North East
Recent spills
Serves the North East and parts of Essex and Suffolk. Major rivers: Tyne, Wear, Tees.
Northumbrian Water operates 1,575 monitored storm overflows. 50 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 383 open flags against them right now.
1,575
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
50
Monitors offline
383
Open flags
405
Spills · last 7 days
25.4 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
2 days
Avg event length · 30 days
23
Spills · last 24 hours
8,153
spill events
+8667% vs prior 12m
572,764h
cumulative discharge
+866145% 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 107.9h per overflow. ranked 7 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.