Dewsbury was polluted by sewage 814 times in 2023
lasting 4,973 hours

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Totals for Dewsbury in 2023
30 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
814 sewage dumps
4,973 h duration
That's 6.91 months. On average 2.2 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dewsbury in 2023. 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 0 of the total 38 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Dearne CLAYTON WEST WWTW 111 1,386 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne CUCKSTOOL BOTTOM CSO 79 518 99.8
Yorkshire Water Dean Bottom Dike SPRINGFIELD LANE CSO 74 447 65.6
Yorkshire Water River Dearne PARK MILL CSO 71 429 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL DEWSBURY NO1 CSO 61 362 93.8
Yorkshire Water Shepley Dike DAMHILL NO 2 CSO 63 347 97.5
Yorkshire Water Park Gate Dike SKELMANTHORPE CSO 35 223 90
Yorkshire Water Little Dike BROOMHILL EMLEY CSO 42 216 99.7
Yorkshire Water Out Lane Dyke BROOMFIELD LANE NO 2 CSO 47 213 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder RAILWAY STREET (B TO D) CSO 40 188 71.3
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Calder BREWERY LANE CSO 19 142 99.8
Yorkshire Water Range Dike SPRINGFIELD LANE CSO 10 103 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder RAVENS HUDDERSFIELD RD CSO 27 85 96.6
Yorkshire Water River Spen DEWSBURY MOOR CSO 54 77 99.8
Yorkshire Water Calder COMBS HILL CSO 26 39 63.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIR COTTAGE CSO 6 37 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL PARK AVENUE CSO 2 28 58.2
Yorkshire Water Shepley Dike THUNDERBRIDGE NO 2 CSO 11 27 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Dearne BIRDS EDGE CSO 8 25 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDER BANK ROAD CSO 3 22 92.7
Yorkshire Water Flockton Beck FLOCKTON TANK CSO 2 18 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne WAKEFIELD ROAD SCISSET CSO 2 10 76.6
Yorkshire Water Calder EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 3 9 96.1
Yorkshire Water Falhouse Beck GRANGE MOOR CSO 5 4 92.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder NEWGATE CSO 1 4 68.6
Yorkshire Water Thorpe Dike LANE HACKINGS GREEN CSO 8 2 93.9
Yorkshire Water Varies With Outlet EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 1 0 93.9
Yorkshire Water Howroyd Beck WHITLEY ROAD STORM BALANCING TANK 1 0 92.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIDDLERS HILL 1 0 98.2
Yorkshire Water River Dearne SPRING GROVE CSO 1 0 95.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOUTH STREET CSO 0 0 89.9
Yorkshire Water River Dearne CATCH BAR CSO 0 0 58.9
Yorkshire Water Spen River SCOUTHILL CSO 0 0 60
Yorkshire Water Chickenley Beck SYKE ING NO 2 CSO 0 0 95.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL SYPHON CSO 0 0 14.1
Yorkshire Water Woodsome Beck DOGLEY CSO 0 0 99
Yorkshire Water Dewsbury Beck WOOD STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Toad Hole Dike BACK LANE CSO 0 0 99

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. This 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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