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Barnsley South

Polluted by sewage 924 times in 2025 lasting 3,982 hours

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Live data for Barnsley South in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,104 hours of sewage overflows, from 42 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Barnsley South in 2025

35 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
924 sewage dumps
3,982 hours duration
That's 5.53 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barnsley South 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Dove And Bulling Dyke WOMBWELL WWTW 142 1,023 99.93
Yorkshire Water River Dove WORSBROUGH WWTW 36 337 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne BOLTON ON DEARNE STW 49 323 99.75
Yorkshire Water River Dearne DARFIELD WWTW 45 268 100
Yorkshire Water Knoll Beck ELSECAR CSO 47 194 100
Yorkshire Water Thurnscoe Dike THURNSCOE CSO 28 171 100
Yorkshire Water Jump Valley Stream CHURCH STREET JUMP CSO 45 156 96.6
Yorkshire Water River Dearne BARNBURGH STW 17 142 72.4
Yorkshire Water Jump Valley Stream WELLAND CRESCENT CSO 35 129 100
Yorkshire Water River Dove BIRDWELL CSO 31 125 89
Yorkshire Water Knoll Beck LUNDHILL CSO 34 121 100
Yorkshire Water Thurnscoe Dike BURNTWOOD CLOSE CSO 29 117 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne RIVERSIDE CLOSE DARFIELD CSO 27 110 98
Yorkshire Water Harley Dike CLOUGHFIELDS ROAD NO 2 CSO 42 104 100
Yorkshire Water Clvrt River Dearne STAIRFOOT GRANGE CSO 30 104 74.4
Yorkshire Water Jump Valley Stream COBCAR LANE CSO 34 101 99.9
Yorkshire Water Worsborough Reservoir GENN LANE CSO 29 95 96.3
Yorkshire Water River Dearne PINFOLD LANE RECREATION CSO 42 90 100
Yorkshire Water Far Moor Dyke FURLONG POND NO 2 CSO 16 51 100
Yorkshire Water Billingley Dyke MIDDLECLIFFE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 5 38 100
Yorkshire Water River Dove MARY LANE DARFIELD CSO 34 33 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Dearne KENDRAY DONCASTER ROAD CSO 16 30 100
Yorkshire Water Dearne And Dove Canal HOYLAND KING STREET CSO 17 26 88.7
Yorkshire Water River Dove EDMUNDS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLW 8 20 88.7
Yorkshire Water Knoll Beck MILLHOUSES STREET CSO 15 18 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Dearne EDDERTHORPE LNE & NANNY MARR RD CSO 21 15 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne EDDERTHORPE LNE & NANNY MARR RD CSO 16 9 99.9
Yorkshire Water Dove EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 13 6 100
Yorkshire Water Short Wood Dike GREEN SPRING AVENUE CSO 6 5 100
Yorkshire Water Short Wood Dike TINKER LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STN 3 4 88.2
Yorkshire Water Jump Valley Stream WENTWORTH ROAD JUMP CSO 3 2 99.3
Yorkshire Water Dob Sike BANK END AVENUE CSO 5 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Dove STAIRFOOT SPS 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Dove GEORGE STREET DARFIELD NO 2 CSO 1 0 95.7
Yorkshire Water River Dove WEST STREET WORSBROUGH CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne BIRK ROAD, KENDRAY CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne DARFIELD DONCASTER ROAD CSO 0 0 92.7
Yorkshire Water River Dearne MEXBOROUGH EAST CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Dove Canal - River Dearne WATH ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Snape Dike WESTFIELDS CSO 0 0 64

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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