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Doncaster North

Polluted by sewage 499 times in 2025 lasting 3,537 hours

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Live data for Doncaster North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,339 hours of sewage overflows, from 38 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Doncaster North in 2025

28 Sites polluted by South West Water Yorkshire Water
499 sewage dumps
3,537 hours duration
That's 4.91 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Doncaster North in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water North Common Drain ASKERN COLLIERY 35 517 100
Yorkshire Water Bentley Mill Stream BENTLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 40 458 99.9
Yorkshire Water Bentley Mill Stream ALEXANDER STREET PUMPING STATION 32 402 100
Yorkshire Water Great Common Drain EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 25 303 100
Yorkshire Water Swan Sike Drain SSO AT NORTON PUMPING STATION 21 233 100
Yorkshire Water River Went NORTON (ASKERN) WWTW 22 199 99.3
Yorkshire Water Great Common Drain ASKERN SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 37 161 100
Yorkshire Water Mill Dike ADWICK LE STREET WWTW 21 155 100
Yorkshire Water Well Sike CARCROFT (SKELLOW) [1] SPS 23 152 95.7
Yorkshire Water River Don KIRTON LANE SPS 27 143 100
Yorkshire Water River Don Via Public Sewer BRITAIN STREET CSO 41 143 100
Yorkshire Water Culv Old River Dearne HARLINGTON MILL LANE CSO 16 125 99.9
Yorkshire Water Wellsyke Drain CARCROFT (NEW STREET) SPS 12 114 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Don Via Pubic Sewer SWINTON ROAD CSO 25 75 100
Yorkshire Water Mill Dike WOODLANDS DONCASTER ROAD CSO 26 72 100
Yorkshire Water Fowler Bridge Drain BENTLEY RISE PS & CSO 12 67 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne PASTURES ROAD SPS 9 51 100
Yorkshire Water Frickley Beck CLAYTON WITH FRICKLEY STW 6 39 100
Yorkshire Water Mill Dike GREAT NORTH ROAD ADWICK CSO 16 31 98.5
Yorkshire Water Swan Sike Drain SELBY ROAD SPS 2 25 100
Yorkshire Water Skell CARCROFT (SKELLOW - INGS LANE) SPS 2 23 97.3
Yorkshire Water Swaidike ANCHROAGE LANE CSO 6 16 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Dearne HARLINGTON ROAD CSO 15 9 100
Yorkshire Water Town End Drain RAMPER LANE SPS 5 5 99.9
Yorkshire Water Langthwaite Dyke WAR MEMORIAL CSO 11 4 100
Yorkshire Water Stainforth Drain RAMSKIR LANE NO 2 CSO 3 3 100
Yorkshire Water Old Ea Beck LYME TERRACE CSO 8 3 81
Yorkshire Water Wellsyke Drain OWSTON ROAD CSO 1 0 100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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