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Wetherby and Easingwold

Polluted by sewage 2,655 times in 2025 lasting 15,456 hours - That's 1.79 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Wetherby and Easingwold in 2026

So far this year (as of 11 Aug 2026, 20:15) there has been 9,380 hours of sewage overflows, from 91 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.09 years!

Totals for Wetherby and Easingwold in 2025

81 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
2,655 sewage dumps
15,456 hours duration
That's 1.79 years. On average 7.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wetherby and Easingwold 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 4 of the total 85 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water Scour Gutter SKELTON ON URE WPC WORKS 171 1,797 99.95
Yorkshire Water River Nidd NORTH DEIGHTON STW 62 1,091 100
Yorkshire Water Ure BOROUGHBRIDGE STW 75 989 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale MYTON ON SWALE SEWAGE WORKS 61 938 100
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck HARROGATE SOUTH STW 55 662 100
Yorkshire Water Cock Beck BARWICK IN ELMET SEWAGE WORKS 57 545 97.9
Yorkshire Water Main Goit NORTON LE CLAY SEWAGE WORKS 59 514 100
Yorkshire Water Collingham Beck COLLINGHAM LEEDS ROAD CSO 67 430 96.5
Yorkshire Water New Parks Beck SUTTON-ON-THE-FOREST STW 38 394 100
Yorkshire Water Moor Drain LONG MARSTON WPC WORKS STORM TANKS 43 388 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 50 363 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd NUN MONKTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 50 329 99.9
Yorkshire Water Ouse Gill Beck SSO AT GREAT OUSEBURN(EAST) 68 313 99.2
Yorkshire Water Bishop Monkton Beck BISHOP MONKTON STW 81 310 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KEARBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 35 304 100
Yorkshire Water Bardsey Beck HETCHELL VIEW CSO 23 292 100
Yorkshire Water St Helens Dike THORP ARCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 54 291 100
Yorkshire Water Mill Beck CSO AT MILNER LANE 49 282 100
Yorkshire Water River Ure LANGTHORPE SPS 45 282 100
Yorkshire Water Cundall Beck MARTON LE MOOR STW 114 276 82.8
Yorkshire Water River Kyle CHESHIRE HOMES 64 261 100
Yorkshire Water Hurns Gutter SHIPTON STW 38 247 100
Yorkshire Water Derrings Beck THOLTHORPE STW (CONSENT REVIEWED) 65 241 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd KIRK HAMMERTON STW 52 221 99.85
Yorkshire Water River Nidd CATTAL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 28 219 100
Yorkshire Water Whixley Cut FIELD 7500 CSO 58 210 98.3
Yorkshire Water Elphin Beck HUSTHWAITE STW 69 202 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRITANNIA INN CSO 39 200 100
Yorkshire Water River Kyle OULSTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 77 196 100
Yorkshire Water Keswick Beck MEADOW CLOSE CSO 47 191 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Kyle STILLINGTON ROAD SSO 29 180 99.6
Yorkshire Water Sidings Drain TOLLERTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 39 173 100
Yorkshire Water Fleet Beck TOCKWITH TREATMENT WORKS 20 166 100
Yorkshire Water Shires Beck EASINGWOLD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 27 150 100
Yorkshire Water Horse Pond Beck FOLLIFOOT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 28 133 99.7
Yorkshire Water Culverted Scarcroft Beck SHADWELL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 47 124 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER BRITTANIA CSO 24 106 98.3
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WPC WORKS 11 105 100
Yorkshire Water River Ure ALDWARK MOOR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 44 104 99.3
Yorkshire Water Ouse Gill Beck GREAT OUSEBURN SPS 33 104 96
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WEST CSO 42 99 100
Yorkshire Water River Kyle FLAWITH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 53 94 99.9
Yorkshire Water Leasmires Drain PROVIDENCE NOOK YORK ROAD 30 92 100
Yorkshire Water Birdforth Beck THORMANBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 43 92 100
Yorkshire Water Kirk Hammerton Beck KIRK HAMMERTON SSO 33 87 96.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FISHER END SSO 46 84 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe EBOR WAY CSO 26 69 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Scour Gutter CHURCH WOOD CSO 31 59 99.9
Yorkshire Water Syke Beck SSO AT WETHERBY ROAD 25 51 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Swale HELPERBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 7 48 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale HELPERBY (BRAFFERTON) SPS 33 48 100
Yorkshire Water Rake Beck RAKEHILL ROAD CSO 17 44 86.2
Yorkshire Water Sidings Drain TOLLERTON BRIDGE CSO 11 31 97.7
Yorkshire Water Whixley Cut FIELD 4200 CSO 8 27 86.5
Yorkshire Water Kyle RASKELF STW 10 24 99.7
Yorkshire Water An Nidd HUNSINGORE STW 26 23 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SCOTT LANE CSO 20 22 98.3
Yorkshire Water River Ure MILBY ISLAND SPS 2 19 100
Yorkshire Water Ouse Gill Beck LITTLE OUSEBURN SPS 18 18 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WATTLE SYKE CSO 1 10 81.8
Yorkshire Water Bardsey Beck BARDSEY THE DRIVE CSO 7 10 87
Yorkshire Water Carr Beck BRAMHAM LOW WAY CSO 9 8 100
Yorkshire Water Gill Beck BARDSEY CSO 3 7 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY BYPASS CSO 4 7 97.1
Yorkshire Water Caulkhill Beck UPPER DUNSFORTH CSO 4 5 74.5
Yorkshire Water Cock Beck ABERFORD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 6 5 100
Yorkshire Water Ouse Gill Beck BROADLANDS FARM NO 2 CSO 11 5 100
Yorkshire Water Main Goit NORTON LE CLAY SEWAGEPUMPINGSTATION 4 3 100
Yorkshire Water Green'S Beck COXWOLD SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT 3 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Kyle SCHOOL CLOSE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 3 2 29.3
Yorkshire Water Mill Sike NUNMONKTON COMMON CSO 4 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd MOOR MONKTON EAST SPS 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck Or River Crimple EASTFIELD FARM CSO 2 1 81.7
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck Or River Crimple GINNY GREEN HOLES NATURE RESERVE 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water Wharfe LANGWITH VALLEY SPS 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water Cock Beck ABERFORD ROAD SSO 3 0 79
Yorkshire Water Low Commondrain ALDBOROUGH SSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Kyle BRANDSBY ROAD SSO 1 0 27.4
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Kyle TOLLERTON GARAGE CSO 1 0 98.3
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WEATHERBY HIGH STREET CSO 1 0 98.3
Yorkshire Water Ings Beck WHENBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Culv River Swale HELPERBY MARKET CSO 0 0 94.1
Yorkshire Water River Tutt NEW ROW COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Toad Hall Beck SICKLINGHALL CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Farnley Wood Beck YORKSHIRE WATER CHURWELL SURFACE W 0 0 99.9

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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