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River Sheaf polluted by sewage 302 times in 2025 - lasting 1,050 hours

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Totals for River Sheaf in 2025
14 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
302 sewage dumps
1,050 h duration
That's 1.46 months. 5.8 times a week, on average
Places along River Sheaf

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf MILLHOUSES PARK CSO 90 490 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf LEYBURN ROAD SHEFFIELD NO2 CSO 30 113 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf SSO IN BROADFIELD ROAD, SHEFFIELD 24 91 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf SHEAF BANK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 33 73 99.2
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 24 67 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf ABBEYDALE ROAD 62 NO2 CSO 7 65 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf LITTLE LONDON ROAD CSO 32 54 96.8
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf GRANVILLE ROAD STORM SEWAGE OVERFLW 26 51 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf WOODSEATS ROAD 2 CSO 8 19 96.7
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf ST MARY'S ROAD CSO 5 8 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf OLIVE GROVE DEPOT CSO 12 7 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf AIZLEWOOD ROAD CSO 7 6 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf SMITHY WOOD CRESCENT CSO 2 1 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf GLEADLESS ROAD HEELEY 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf FRASER ROAD CSO 0 0 96
Yorkshire Water River Sheaf WOODSEATS ROAD 1 CSO 0 0 6.6

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.

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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