Birtley Sewage Treatment Works
Waste types not recorded
Birtley Sewage Treatment Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chester-le-Street, County Durham. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1990 and 1994, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD33075, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD33075 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Birtley Sewage Treatment Works |
| Address | Birtley, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Northumbrian Water Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 July 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 425900, 556400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.