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Barnsley North

Polluted by sewage 645 times in 2025 lasting 3,385 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Barnsley North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,794 hours of sewage overflows, from 33 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Barnsley North in 2025

29 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
645 sewage dumps
3,385 hours duration
That's 4.7 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barnsley North in 2025. 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 constituency 1 of the total 31 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Dearne LUNDWOOD WWTW 71 864 100
Yorkshire Water Shafton Beck GRIMETHORPE STW 39 374 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Dearne DARTON WWTW 40 324 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Dearne CUDWORTH WWTW 30 265 99.4
Yorkshire Water Sough Dyke LAMBRA ROAD CSO 53 218 100
Yorkshire Water Hemp Dike SANDYBRIDGE LANE NO 3 SPS 45 216 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne LUNDWOOD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 33 143 100
Yorkshire Water Red Brook REDBROOK ROAD CSO 35 140 100
Yorkshire Water Dyke To River Dearne CARR GREEN CSO 33 107 100
Yorkshire Water Pools Dike POOLS LANE CSO 19 99 100
Yorkshire Water Grimethorpe Dyke ENGINE LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 21 98 96.9
Yorkshire Water Measborough Dike BALLOTINI WORKS CSO 36 90 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne DEARNE HALL ROAD CSO 25 82 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne SMITHIES LANE CSO 31 79 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne DARTON CHURCH STREET CSO 26 62 100
Yorkshire Water Small Bridge Dyke CUDWORTH SPS 9 38 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne BARNSLEY MFI CSO 15 36 94.1
Yorkshire Water Bleakley Dyke APPLEHAIGH VIEW SPS 4 31 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne OLD MILL LANE CSO 17 30 100
Yorkshire Water Sough Dyke PONTEFRACT ROAD CSO 27 30 99.8
Yorkshire Water Pools Dike MEADOW CRESCENT CSO 15 22 100
Yorkshire Water Small Bridge Dike KLONDYKE SPS 7 13 100
Yorkshire Water Thurnscoe Dyke GREAT HOUGHTON SEWAGE PUMPING STN 3 10 100
Yorkshire Water Shaw Dyke ROYSTON (CARLTON-SHAW LANE) 1 2 100
Yorkshire Water Small Bridge Dike CARRS LANE CUDWORTH 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne LAMBERT ROAD, KENDRAY CSO 2 0 87.4
Yorkshire Water River Dearne REGENT STREET 3 0 100
Yorkshire Water Royston Scott Dike CHURCH HILL CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Cudworth Dyke LAITHES LANE CSO 1 0 82.7
Yorkshire Water To River Dearne HILL TOP FARM CSO 0 0 49.4
Yorkshire Water River Dearne NEW LODGE 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

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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