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River Hipper polluted by sewage 222 times in 2025 - lasting 807 hours

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Totals for River Hipper in 2025
8 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
222 sewage dumps
807 h duration
That's 1.12 months. 4.3 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Hipper
Places along River Hipper

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Hipper BOBBINMILL LANE CSO 57 338 100
Yorkshire Water River Hipper SSO AT OAKFIELD AVENUE 53 224 100
Yorkshire Water River Hipper CHATSWORTH ROAD N471 CSO 30 67 92.6
Yorkshire Water River Hipper BULLS HEAD CSO 25 61 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Hipper DOCK WALK CSO 13 49 98
Yorkshire Water River Hipper HIPPER HALL CSO 20 39 97.4
Yorkshire Water River Hipper CHATSWORTH ROAD CSO 17 23 100
Yorkshire Water River Hipper CHURCH VIEW CSO 7 3 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Hipper HIPPER STREET SOUTH CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Hipper OLD ROAD CHESTERFIELD 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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