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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Howardian Hills - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,863 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 13,365 hours , potential overflows 86 hours so far..

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Totals for 2026

Sewage1,863 hours
Monitoring offline13,365 hours
Potential pollution86 hours
Storm overflows19

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Daily Data - when it rained, and when they spilled

Square = rainfall none → heavy
Drop = sewage minutes → all day
Potential pollution Monitoring offline
Jan - 630 hours , 968 offline
Feb - 1,070 hours , 1,344 offline
Mar - 56 hours , 86 potential
Apr - 3 hours , 1,440 offline
May - 15 hours , 2,031 offline
Jun - 0 hours , 2,048 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 1,488 offline
Aug - 54 hours , 1,459 offline
Sept - 18 hours , 720 offline
Oct - 12 hours , 377 offline

Storm overflows in and around Howardian Hills

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Yorkshire Water OSWALDKIRK/STW Holbeck 80 1,132h 19m 86 h
Yorkshire Water HOWSHAM/STW River Derwent 22 233h 50m -
Yorkshire Water FOSTON/STW Spital Beck 23 204h 34m -
Yorkshire Water HELMSLEY/STW River Rye 34 146h 26m -
Yorkshire Water OULSTON/STW River Kyle 41 76h 34m -
Yorkshire Water GILLING EAST/STW Holbeck 6 45h 35m -
Yorkshire Water SAWMILL LANE/CSO River Rye 9 11h 6m 1 h
Yorkshire Water CRAMBE/STW River Derwent 1 5h 43m -
Yorkshire Water AMPLEFORTH/CSO Holbeck 3 2h 31m 1,151 h
Yorkshire Water AMPLEFORTH VILLAGE/STW Holbeck 6 1h 51m 0 h
Yorkshire Water RYEDALE NEW ROAD/CSO Wath Beck 4 1h 16m -
Yorkshire Water Unknown Unknown 4 0h 49m -
Yorkshire Water COXWOLD/STW Green'S Beck 1 0h 31m -
Yorkshire Water HOVINGHAM/STW Marrs Beck 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water BRANDSBY ROAD/NO 2 CSO Not Matched In Ea Consents Database 0 0h 6,929 h
Yorkshire Water FIRBY/STW Derwent 0 0h 5,281 h
Yorkshire Water CONEYSTHORPE/STW Mill Hills Beck 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water RYEDALE CARR LANE/CSO Holbeck 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water BRANDSBY ROAD/NO 1 CSO River Kyle 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.