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Doncaster Central

Polluted by sewage 219 times in 2025 lasting 999 hours

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Live data for Doncaster Central in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,614 hours of sewage overflows, from 27 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Doncaster Central in 2025

11 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water Yorkshire Water
219 sewage dumps
999 hours duration
That's 1.39 months. 4.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Doncaster Central 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 %
Severn Trent Water Slutwell Stream TICKHILL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 91 323 99.9
Severn Trent Water Ruddle Dyke BRAITHWELL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 41 200 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don SANDALL WWTW 15 149 99.9
Yorkshire Water Mother Drain BALBY STW (YWS) 15 110 99.95
Severn Trent Water Fores Drain ARMTHORPE STW 19 60 100
Yorkshire Water Lady Bank Drain SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION 10 59 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Cheswold DONCASTER INTERCHANGE CSO 10 44 100
Yorkshire Water An Unnamed Shef WHEATLY/NO 2 SPS 9 44 93.3
Severn Trent Water Diggin Dyke ARMTHORPE - COWTHORPE LANE CSO 6 4 99.9
Severn Trent Water Salter Sike Drain WADWORTH DAW LANE SPS 2 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Don THORNE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Drain Leading To River Don HARROWDEN CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don SMITHS SQUARE 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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