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River Calder polluted by sewage 2,957 times in 2025 - lasting 18,099 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Calder in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTWOOD WWTW 129 2,181 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PRINCESS BRIDGE NO 2 CSO 128 1,649 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder CROW NEST BRIDGE CSO 91 1,532 98.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder HUDDERSFIELD STW 254 1,532 97.95
Yorkshire Water River Calder BONEGATE LN, ALEGER ST & THORNHILL 266 1,254 99.97
Yorkshire Water River Calder HIGH ROYD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 206 1,195 99.77
Yorkshire Water River Calder HORBURY (DUDFLEET) STW 129 1,110 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTWOOD NO2 CSO 96 806 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDERVALE (WAKEFIELD) STW 85 727 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder MILL LANE WWTW 70 719 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder MITCHELL LAITHES WWTW 61 523 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder BREARLEY MAIN SEWER CSO 79 470 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder ALBION MILLS CSO 52 376 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIELDING STREET CSO 46 342 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder SMALLEY BIGHT (STANLEY) STW 56 321 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder HORBURY BRIDGE SPS 63 245 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder OSSETT SPA SPS AND STORM TANKS 32 244 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTMOOR CSO 59 198 99
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK HILL FARM CSO 55 188 96.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder ABERFORD ROAD CSO 46 188 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL DEWSBURY NO1 CSO 36 173 75.2
Yorkshire Water River Calder WOODHOUSE LANE CSO 77 160 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder HEALEY ROAD OSSETT CSO 58 152 98.1
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHARFE HOUSE CSO 65 145 98.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO 30 122 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder RAVENS HUDDERSFIELD RD CSO 27 121 93.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder ELLAND LOWFIELDS SPS 40 90 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder HAZELWOOD STREET CSO 37 90 81.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder POLLARD STREET NO 2 CSO 29 83 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder ASHENHURST ROAD 40 82 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOWERBY NEW ROAD CSO 66 73 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder ELLEN HOUSE ROAD 7 72 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder LONGBOTTOM BRIDGE CSO 9 71 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIR COTTAGE CSO 7 69 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder BURNLEY ROAD CORNHOLME CSO 16 68 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL SYPHON CSO 16 66 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder BRAMSTON STREET CSO 34 61 65.2
Yorkshire Water River Calder WEST VALE 21 58 99.95
Yorkshire Water River Calder RAILWAY STREET (B TO D) CSO 13 49 58
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHINNEY MOOR PUB HOUSE CSO 26 49 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder BACK WHARF STREET CSO 33 43 86.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder BRIDGE LANE/MARKET STREET 10 42 77.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder DARK LANE NO 2 CSO 32 39 92.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder RIVER STREET CSO 19 35 33
Yorkshire Water River Calder PEAR TREE HOLLINS CSO 66 30 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder LOWER EDGE ROAD CSO 11 27 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder MITCHELL STREET CSO 6 27 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOWERBY BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STN 8 26 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder FERNHILL CSO 7 24 47.1
Yorkshire Water River Calder HANGINGROYD ROAD CSO 3 23 97.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder BIRDS ROYD LANE CSO 27 21 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder REDACRE STW 7 18 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder SWALLOWS NEST CSO 1 8 46
Yorkshire Water River Calder COPLEY VILLAGE SPS 1 8 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder NEWGATE CSO 1 8 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder DYEHOUSE LANE CSO 19 6 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder COOPER BRIDGE CSO 9 6 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder GAS WORKS LANE 1 6 93.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder ELLAND LANE CSO 2 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK ROAD CSO 1 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder ROCHDALE CANAL CSO 2 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder TOWN HALL STREET CSO 18 2 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOUTH STREET CSO 7 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder BOTTOM BOAT ROAD SSO 3 2 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDER BANK ROAD CSO 3 2 84.3
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL PARK AVENUE CSO 1 0 88.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder SCOUT ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder DENBY DALE ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder LILLANDS LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder LORDS LANE BRIGHOUSE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder MILLGATE SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THE DRIVE/CALDENE AVENUE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIDDLERS HILL 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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