Wakefield

Polluted by sewage 886 times in 2024 lasting 3,076 hours

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

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Totals for Wakefield in 2024

35 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

886 sewage dumps

3,076 hours duration

That's 4.27 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Wakefield

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wakefield 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 locality 1 of the total 40 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
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	Pugney'S Drain	PORTOBELLO SPS	33	204	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	OSSETT SPA SPS AND STORM TANKS	25	189	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Lee Moor Beck	STANLEY MOOR ROAD SPS	29	167	100
Yorkshire Water	Owler Beck	STANDBRIDGE LANE CSO	50	106	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO	31	95	100
Yorkshire Water	Spring Mill Beck	BAPTISTS LANE CSO	41	63	98.3
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ABERFORD ROAD CSO	40	61	100
Yorkshire Water	Gill Syke	WATERTON ROAD CSO	31	60	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Oakenshaw Beck	MONTAGUE STREET CSO	20	59	100
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	BECTIVE MILLS CSO	37	59	100
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	THE FALLS SPS	16	56	80.6
Yorkshire Water	Carr Gate Beck	CARR GATE BECK CSO	27	49	100
Yorkshire Water	Lupset Beck	LUPSET SPS	17	46	100
Yorkshire Water	Old Mill Stream	CHARLES STREET NO 2 CSO	13	40	100
Yorkshire Water	Balne Beck	WRENTHORPE CSO	10	30	99.8
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	Owler Beck Via Surface Wtr Sw	PLEDWICK CSO	19	8	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Spring Mill Beck	OSSETT TOWNGATE NO 2 CSO	12	8	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	Oakenshaw Beck	AGBRIGG GARAGE CSO	7	4	100
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	FLANSHAW LANE CSO	8	4	100
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	DERWENT GROVE	6	3	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	DENBY DALE ROAD CSO	1	1	100
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	Oakenshaw Beck	AGBRIGG GARAGE SPS	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Chald Beck	CLAYTON HILL CSO	1	0	94.1
Yorkshire Water	Cut Beck	WOODSIDE CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Chapelthorpe Bank Owler B	CHAPELTHORPE CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Owler Beck/Newmillerdam	NEWMILLERDAM CSO	0	0	100
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. 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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Wakefield Polluted by sewage 886 times in 2024 lasting 3,076 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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