Wakefield and Rothwell

Polluted by sewage 813 times in 2024 lasting 3,664 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Wakefield and Rothwell in 2024

27 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
813 sewage dumps
3,664 hours duration
That's 5.09 months. On average 2.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wakefield and Rothwell in 2024. 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 1 of the total 30 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Aire LEMONROYD WWTW 128 1,274 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDERVALE (WAKEFIELD) STW 116 702 99.95
Yorkshire Water River Calder SMALLEY BIGHT (STANLEY) STW 92 541 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK HILL FARM CSO 68 244 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTMOOR CSO 74 210 94.7
Yorkshire Water Lee Moor Beck STANLEY MOOR ROAD SPS 29 167 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO 31 95 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder ABERFORD ROAD CSO 40 61 100
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke WATERTON ROAD CSO 31 60 99.9
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck BECTIVE MILLS CSO 37 59 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck CARR GATE BECK CSO 27 49 100
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck LUPSET SPS 17 46 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire GLENOIT MILL CSO 17 32 94.1
Yorkshire Water Balne Beck WRENTHORPE CSO 10 30 99.8
Yorkshire Water Oulton Beck FARRER LANE CSO 16 24 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet KIRKGATE CHANTRY BRIDGE CSO 10 20 27.7
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW ROAD CSO 15 10 100
Yorkshire Water Foster Ford Beck BRANDY CARR LANE NO 2 CSO 8 7 96.7
Yorkshire Water Balne Beck WRENTHORPE LANE CSO 18 6 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHINNEY MOOR PUB HOUSE CSO 3 5 96.5
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW LANE CSO 8 4 100
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck DERWENT GROVE 6 3 99.8
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck HORBURY ROAD M1 CSO 4 1 75.3
Yorkshire Water River Calder BOTTOM BOAT ROAD SSO 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire ALMA VILLAS 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Cut Beck WOODSIDE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Chald Beck CLAYTON HILL CSO 1 0 94.1
Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck BRANDY CARR ROAD 252 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck NEW SCARBOROUGH CSO 0 0 96.3
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke THORNES ROAD JUNCTION CSO 0 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. This 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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