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Colne Valley

Polluted by sewage 1,512 times in 2025 lasting 8,512 hours

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

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Live data for Colne Valley in 2026

So far this year (as of 10 Sept 2026, 11:30) there has been 4,776 hours of sewage overflows, from 59 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Colne Valley

On 4 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Colne Valley for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

Totals for Colne Valley in 2025

52 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,512 sewage dumps
8,512 hours duration
That's 11.82 months. On average 4.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Colne Valley 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 2 of the total 59 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 Holme LONGLANDS ROAD CSO 57 1,087 100
Yorkshire Water New Mill Dike SINKING WOOD NO2 CSO 73 1,046 100
Yorkshire Water Mag Brook MELTHAM STW 78 1,007 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme NEILEY WWTW 55 735 100
Yorkshire Water Mag Brook THIRSTIN ROAD NO2 CSO 60 450 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme QUEENS SQUARE CSO 62 364 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne BARBER ROW NO 2 CSO 72 351 100
Yorkshire Water Red Lane Dike POLE MOOR SPS 36 311 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme HONLEY HUDDERSFIELD ROAD NO 2 58 304 100
Yorkshire Water Longwood Brook LEYMOOR ROAD CSO 76 215 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Colne TITANIC MILLS CSO 50 212 100
Yorkshire Water Stubbin Clough DOBB LANE NO 2 CSO 39 207 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne WOOD BOTTOM CSO 57 203 99.8
Yorkshire Water No Details EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 62 193 97.55
Yorkshire Water River Colne BRIDGE ST CSO 45 188 100
Yorkshire Water Hey Clough HEY CLOUGH SPS 34 180 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Holme CORN MILL NO 2 CSO 35 154 100
Yorkshire Water Longwood Brook MILNSBRIDGE (MARKET STREET) CSO 55 125 68.2
Yorkshire Water New Mill Dike HOLME BOTTOM CSO 36 110 99.2
Yorkshire Water River Colne GORDON TERRACE CSO 29 107 99.7
Yorkshire Water Meltham Dike MELTHAM CSO 37 88 68.1
Yorkshire Water River Holme TOWNGATE HOLMFIRTH 2 CSO 22 86 99.9
Yorkshire Water Jackson Bridge Dike ST GEORGE'S ROAD CSO 23 74 100
Yorkshire Water Culv'D Hoyle House Brk CAUSEWAY SIDE TOP CSO 17 67 93.2
Yorkshire Water River Colne FACTORY LANE CSO 23 60 87.6
Yorkshire Water New Mill Dike NEW MILL LIBRARY CSO 17 52 81.8
Yorkshire Water Jackson Bridge Dyke JACKSON BRIDGE NO 2 CSO 19 50 99.8
Yorkshire Water Hoyle House Brook STONES LANE/WAINGATE CSO 9 42 100
Yorkshire Water Meltham Dike MEAN BRIDGE CSO 20 41 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne MORLEY LANE CSO 32 41 100
Yorkshire Water Grimescar Dike BURN ROAD CSO 23 38 97.3
Yorkshire Water Jackson Bridge Dike SPRING WOOD CSO 14 34 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Colne MILNS SHAW LANE NO 2 CSO 20 31 99.7
Yorkshire Water Culv River Holme BROCKHOLES LANE CSO 9 29 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Colne FERNLEA GROVE CSO 16 28 100
Yorkshire Water Longwood Brook DALE STREET CSO 17 27 99
Yorkshire Water Longwood Brook LOWER HIRST CSO 13 26 68.2
Yorkshire Water Culverted Longwood Brook NEW HEY ROAD CSO 11 19 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne BARGATE CSO 8 17 100
Yorkshire Water Hoyle House Brook CAUSEWAY SIDE 13 C.S.O 12 17 92.7
Yorkshire Water River Colne SCAR LANE CSO 11 15 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ribble SWAN BANK NO 2 CSO 3 13 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne BROOK LANE CSO 14 9 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Holme HONLEY NEWTOWN NO 2 CSO 18 9 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne RAMSDEN MILL CSO 4 8 99.6
Yorkshire Water Rakes Dyke HEPWORTH ROAD CSO 6 8 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme PICKWICK MILL CSO 1 7 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme HONLEY BRIDGE NO 2 CSO 11 4 100
Yorkshire Water Rakes Dyke BUTT LANE CSO 10 3 98.7
Yorkshire Water River Holme HOLMFIRTH BRIDGE LANE CSO 1 1 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Colne COPLEY BANK CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne PICKFORD STREET CSO 1 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Holme COOPER LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culv River Holme HONLEY EASTGATE CSO 0 0 98.2
Yorkshire Water New Mill Dike HUDDERSFIELD ROAD 0 0 82
Yorkshire Water New Mill Dike KIRKBRIDGE LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Clay Wood Brook NETTLETON HILL CSO 0 0 40.9
Yorkshire Water River Holme THURSTONLAND CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Digley Brook WOODHEAD ROAD CSO 0 0 48.6

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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