Dewsbury and Batley was polluted by sewage 346 times in 2024
lasting 1,083 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Dewsbury and Batley in 2024
24 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
346 sewage dumps
1,083 h duration
That's 1.5 months. 6.7 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dewsbury and Batley in 2024. 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 30 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL DEWSBURY NO1 CSO 41 218 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder RAILWAY STREET (B TO D) CSO 33 175 100
Yorkshire Water Batley Beck WARWICK ROAD NO2 CSO 70 173 100
Yorkshire Water Calder EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 40 159 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder RAVENS HUDDERSFIELD RD CSO 26 86 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen DEWSBURY MOOR CSO 39 86 98.1
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIR COTTAGE CSO 11 45 100
Yorkshire Water Howley Beck TIMOTHY LANE TANK CSO 5 45 99.9
Yorkshire Water Calder COMBS HILL CSO 28 27 99.5
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Calder BREWERY LANE CSO 11 20 100
Yorkshire Water Batley Carr Dyke Culverted UPPER ROAD CSO 11 10 93.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDER BANK ROAD CSO 2 10 76.3
Yorkshire Water Flockton Beck FLOCKTON TANK CSO 4 9 77.1
Yorkshire Water Falhouse Beck GRANGE MOOR CSO 5 5 79.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL PARK AVENUE CSO 2 3 78.1
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOUTH STREET CSO 6 2 90.5
Yorkshire Water Varies With Outlet EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 3 1 95.2
Yorkshire Water River Calder FIDDLERS HILL 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water Batley Beck WELL LANE CSO 2 1 86.3
Yorkshire Water Howroyd Beck WHITLEY ROAD STORM BALANCING TANK 1 0 75.6
Yorkshire Water Batley Beck FIELD LANE 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Batley Carr MAYMAN LANE TANK CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Greenhill Dike Culverted BATLEY GRANGE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Dewsbury Beck WOOD STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Carlinghow Beck MELTON STREET CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Spen River SCOUTHILL CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNHILL SYPHON CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Chickenley Beck SYKE ING NO 2 CSO 0 0 96
Yorkshire Water Batley Beck BATLEY MOUNT STREET CSO 0 0 3.9
Yorkshire Water Batley Beck To River Calder EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 0

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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