York

Polluted by sewage 2,294 times in 2024 lasting 20,310 hours - That's 2.35 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for York in 2024

58 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

2,294 sewage dumps

20,310 hours duration

That's 2.35 years! On average 6.3 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in York

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for York 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 7 of the total 67 CSO 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	River Ouse	WOOLWORTHS CSO	194	3,602	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	FULFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	143	2,321	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Tang Hall Beck	NAVIGATION ROAD CSO	186	2,038	99.1
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	MARYGATE LANDING CSO (NO2)	128	1,581	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	THE ESPLANADE YORK CSO	123	1,500	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	BUTCHER TERRACE CSO	102	1,435	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	LENDAL HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	108	1,296	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	TRAFALGAR STREET CSO	50	689	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	MARYGATE LANE CSO	71	657	98.5
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO	46	598	49
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	HOLGATE ROAD NO.2 CSO	64	522	100
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	POPPLETON ROAD SOUTH 2 CSO	65	516	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse/Rawcliffe Ings Dr	RAWCLIFFE (YORK) STW	44	437	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	KNAVESMIRE ROAD CSO	45	327	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	PORTLAND STREET CSO	74	320	94.9
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Knavesmire Beck	KNAVESMIRE CSO	30	302	100
Yorkshire Water	Tang Hall Beck	FOSS ISLANDS ROAD CSO	47	238	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	NEW WALK CSO	22	238	33.6
Yorkshire Water	Tang Hall Beck	FISHERGATE CSO	9	190	5.6
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	TADCASTER ROAD CSO & BISHOPTHORPE	20	161	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	HEWORTH GREEN NO 2 CSO	30	133	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	LANDING LANE CSO	33	106	99.5
Yorkshire Water	Unknown Beck	FAIRFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	22	95	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	MILLFIELD LANE CSO	33	87	99.7
Yorkshire Water	Germany Beck	HESLINGTON MAIN STREET SPS	48	80	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	MEADOW FIELD CSO	21	76	100
Yorkshire Water	Germany Beck	FULFORD MAIN CSO	56	76	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	LOWER POPPLETON LANE SPS	41	75	87.2
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	JUBILEE TERRACE CSO	17	67	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Holgate Beck	POPPLETON ROAD NORTH CSO	46	57	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	COMMON HALL LANE CSO	7	55	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE CSO	34	54	82.6
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	MAYFIELD GROVE CSO	18	39	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	FOSS BANK CSO	15	35	100
Yorkshire Water	Ing Cliffs Drain	PLANTATION DRIVE CSO	39	35	92.8
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	HUNTINGTON ROAD CSO	16	30	100
Yorkshire Water	Blue Beck, Ouse	SHIPTON ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	10	26	100
Yorkshire Water	Tang Hall Beck	WALMGATE CSO	18	25	100
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck Via Public Sewer	BEECH AVENUE CSO	10	20	96
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	WIGGINTON ROAD SSO	13	20	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	BOOTHAM HOSPITAL CSO	13	20	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	QUEEN STREET BRIDGE CSO	4	19	30.2
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	FARNDALE STREET CSO	13	19	99.6
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO	48	12	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	LOWTHER STREET CSO	10	12	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	HAMILTON DRIVE WEST CSO	16	11	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	HARTOFT STREET CSO	35	7	65.1
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Holgate Beck	MILNER STREET CSO	14	7	99.6
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	HAMILTON DRIVE YORK CSO	4	6	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	GROSVENOR TERRACE CSO	10	5	100
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	SEVERUS STREET SSO	6	4	96.8
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	DANESFORT AVENUE CSO	2	3	98.9
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Foss	HAXBY RD CSO	6	3	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Holgate Beck	NORTH LANE SPS	2	1	100
Yorkshire Water	Osbaldwick Beck	HULL ROAD YORK CSO	5	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	RAWCLIFFE SPS	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	CASTLE MILLS CSO	6	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.1 CSO	1	0	99.1
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	ASHVILLE STREET CSO	0	0	82.9
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	JUBILEE TERRACE CSO	0	0	8.2
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	KITCHENER STREET CSO	0	0	92.9
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	OAKVILLE STREET CSO	0	0	0
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	PICCADILLY CSO	0	0	86.1
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	QUEENS STAITH CSO	0	0	0
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.2 CSO	0	0	99.1
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	STATION ROAD CSO	0	0	99.1
Yorkshire Water	River Ouse	TERRY AVENUE CSO	0	0	67.1

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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York Polluted by sewage 2,294 times in 2024 lasting 20,310 hours - That's 2.35 years! Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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