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Penistone and Stocksbridge

Polluted by sewage 1,400 times in 2025 lasting 10,198 hours - That's 1.18 years!

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Live data for Penistone and Stocksbridge in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 09:45) there has been 8,150 hours of sewage overflows, from 45 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Penistone and Stocksbridge in 2025

37 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,400 sewage dumps
10,198 hours duration
That's 1.18 years. On average 3.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Penistone and Stocksbridge 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 %
Yorkshire Water Ellhirst Beck HOYLANDSWAINE STW 106 1,266 99.95
Yorkshire Water Birdwell Dyke TANKERSLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 100 1,163 100
Yorkshire Water Crane Moor Dike CRANE MOOR STW 82 1,154 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don THURGOLAND SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 103 830 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WHARNCLIFFE SIDE STW 81 763 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EWDEN WWTW 49 599 100
Yorkshire Water Porter Or Little Don River MANCHESTER ROAD WEIR CSO 79 557 99.7
Yorkshire Water Silkstone Beck SILKSTONE WWTW 68 555 99.9
Yorkshire Water Tanyard Beck CAWTHORNE WWTW 47 507 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WENTWORTH/BRIDGE END CSO 69 467 100
Yorkshire Water River Don INGBIRCHWORTH STW 88 395 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Don SPRINGVALE CSO 51 272 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WHARNCLIFFE SIDE SPS 47 186 100
Yorkshire Water Tanyard Beck TIVYDALE ROAD CSO 34 176 97
Yorkshire Water Sledbrook Dyke CROW EDGE STW 28 171 99.9
Yorkshire Water Little Don River GIBSON LANE NO 2 CSO 68 167 100
Yorkshire Water Little Don River HUNSHELF ROAD NO 2 CSO 38 160 98
Yorkshire Water Birdwell Dike WOODBINE COTTAGE CSO 29 124 99.9
Yorkshire Water House Carr Dike SILKSTONE COMMON (MOOR END) SPS 25 115 100
Yorkshire Water River Don STOCKSBRIDGE CSO 19 72 99.5
Yorkshire Water Highwood Dike WORTLEY EAST WWTW 38 65 99.9
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook FALDING STREET CSO 17 62 100
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Dodworth Dyke KERESFORTH ROAD CSO 21 61 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook WARREN LANE SHEFFIELD CSO 30 60 100
Yorkshire Water Silkstone Beck SILKSTONE CSO 14 51 100
Yorkshire Water Rive Don THURLESTONE NO 2 CSO 8 42 100
Yorkshire Water Sledbrook Dyke WHAMS ROAD CSO 6 37 99.8
Yorkshire Water Hartley Brook Dike HIGH GREAVE NO 2 CSO 14 31 100
Yorkshire Water River Don STATION LANE CSO 12 31 100
Yorkshire Water River Don CHEESEBOTTOM STW 8 23 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 9 21 100
Yorkshire Water Cubley Brook GREEN BROOK PLACE CSO 4 1 99.3
Yorkshire Water Sheffield Lane Dike BARNSLEY ROAD CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook PACKHORSE LANE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Porter Or Little Don River MANCHESTER ROAD GARAGE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook WHEEL LANE CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water Cawthorne Dike CLAY HALL SPS 1 0 97.7
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook BUTTERTHWAITE LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook WARREN LANE PUBLIC HOUSE CSO 0 0 96.7

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.

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