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Bradford West

Polluted by sewage 618 times in 2025 lasting 1,545 hours

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

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Live data for Bradford West in 2026

So far this year (as of 8 Aug 2026, 08:00) there has been 687 hours of sewage overflows, from 35 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bradford West in 2025

27 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
618 sewage dumps
1,545 hours duration
That's 2.15 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bradford West 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 34 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 Pitty Beck THORNTON ROAD 209 CSO 67 236 100
Yorkshire Water Westbrook LONGSIDE LANE CSO 34 178 100
Yorkshire Water East Brook HAMMERTON ST/LEEDS RD/HARRIS ST CSO 24 163 99
Yorkshire Water Bull Greave Beck LIDGET FM/LOWER LIDGET FM CSO'S 14 150 100
Yorkshire Water Bradford Beck LITTLE HORTON LANE CSO 70 131 100
Yorkshire Water Clayton Beck GREEN END NO 2 CSO 13 124 99.6
Yorkshire Water Bull Greave Beck THEARNE GREEN CSO 55 104 100
Yorkshire Water Bull Greave Beck PASTURE LANE NO 2 CSO 37 78 84.9
Yorkshire Water Bradford Beck PRESTON STREET CSO 40 75 96.6
Yorkshire Water Bradford Beck NORTH BROOK STREET NO 1 & 2 CSO'S 40 45 100
Yorkshire Water Chellow Dean Beck ALLERTON ROAD CSO 39 44 100
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck LOWER KIPPING LANE 2 CSO 24 38 100
Yorkshire Water Horton Beck West Brook Clvrtd GREAT HORTON ROAD CSO 34 33 100
Yorkshire Water East Brook VICAR LANE 2 CSO 33 29 99.7
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck GREEN LANE 206 CSO 3 28 99.8
Yorkshire Water Horton Beck FARNHAM ROAD CSO 17 15 100
Yorkshire Water Bradford Beck CROSS SUN STREET CSO 17 11 100
Yorkshire Water Clayton Beck BRADFORD ROAD 213 CSO 8 11 99
Yorkshire Water Horton Beck SPENCER ROAD CSO 21 11 100
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Cliff Dike WALDEN DRIVE NO 2 CSO 7 10 100
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck DOLE STREET CSO 6 9 89.5
Yorkshire Water Bradford Beck MORLEY STREET CSO 2 5 91.3
Yorkshire Water Horton Beck SHIRLEY ROAD CSO 6 4 100
Yorkshire Water Bradford Beck DUNCOMBE STREET CSO 4 3 99.6
Yorkshire Water Pitty Beck BACK HEIGHTS SPS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Bowling Beck HALL INGS CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck NEW INN BECK CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Middle Brook ARTHUR AVENUE CSO 0 0 3.6
Yorkshire Water Pitty Beck CHARTERIS ROAD CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck DAWSONS HILL CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Horton Beck ROSLYN PLACE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Dirk Hill Beck SHEARBRIDGE MILL NO. 2 CSO 0 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck THORNTON ROAD 201 CSO 0 0 94.6
Yorkshire Water Clayton Beck THORTON GRAMMAR 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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