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Goole and Pocklington

Polluted by sewage 3,422 times in 2025 lasting 9,858 hours - That's 1.14 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Goole and Pocklington in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 5,067 hours of sewage overflows, from 55 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Goole and Pocklington in 2025

45 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
3,422 sewage dumps
9,858 hours duration
That's 1.14 years. On average 9.4 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Goole and Pocklington 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 52 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. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Humber MELTON STW 298 1,462 98.55
Yorkshire Water River Derwent STAMFORD BRIDGE NORTH SPS 62 1,110 100
Yorkshire Water Crabley Creek ELLERKER WWTW 76 791 99.8
Yorkshire Water Black Dike BARMBY MOOR SPS CSO 94 787 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOWDEN STW 1,776 609 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CARR LANE SPS 77 602 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber NORTH FERRIBY STW 108 580 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire ROYAL OAK RAWCLIFFE SPS 53 412 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent STAMFORD BRIDGE SPS 38 345 100
Yorkshire Water Ellerker Drain ELLERKER TODDS LANE SPS 24 338 100
Yorkshire Water Drain To River Derwent ELLERTON SSO 52 330 95.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GILBERDYKE STW 83 271 95.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ASSELBY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 48 252 100
Yorkshire Water Main Drain HOLME ON SPALDING MOOR WWTW 16 222 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire RAWCLIFFE BANKSIDE STW 61 197 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber BRICKYARD COTTAGE SPS 55 178 97.5
Yorkshire Water Pocklington Beck POCKLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 30 176 100
Yorkshire Water Leys Drain EASTRINGTON SPS 16 135 100
Yorkshire Water Welton Bank Drain WELTON SPS 36 133 100
Yorkshire Water Birker Goit NEWTON ON DERWENT SPS 23 99 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire SNAITH MARSH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 40 96 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOOK STW 72 92 100
Yorkshire Water Mill Beck SKIDBY WWTW 14 88 100
Yorkshire Water Tidal River Aire GOWDALL PUMPING STATION CSO 30 76 100
Yorkshire Water Dobeller Drain RAWCLIFFE PARK NO3 SPS 20 70 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber FERRIBY HIGH ROAD SPS 9 67 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber BROUGH NO 1 SPS 44 65 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GOOLE LOCK HILL SPS 44 51 100
Yorkshire Water Golf Links Beck GOLF COURSE CSO 24 31 99.9
Yorkshire Water Langham Drain RAWCLIFFE BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STA 26 28 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire SNAITH WWTW 3 27 100
Yorkshire Water Dutch River OLD GOOLE SPS 22 22 100
Yorkshire Water Weres Pond THE WERES SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 19 97.8
Yorkshire Water River Foulness HOLME WATER END SPS 2 18 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOWDEN ROAD 2 17 99.8
Yorkshire Water Ouse STADDLETHORPE BROAD LANE CSO 2 12 100
Yorkshire Water Derwent SUTTON ON DERWENT SPS 1 10 100
Yorkshire Water To Beck EAST COTTINGWITH SPS 4 8 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Aire AIRMYN (THE CROSSINGS) SPS 5 4 100
Yorkshire Water Pocklington Beck ST PETERS CLOSE CSO 9 4 99.7
Yorkshire Water Field Ditch WALKINGTON ROAD SPS 4 3 50
Yorkshire Water Golf Links Beck STOCKBRIDGE ROAD CSO 9 2 99.9
Yorkshire Water Pocklington Beck GEORGE STREET POCKLINGTON CSO 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Stone Beck POCKLINGTON AIRFIELD SPS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Derwent POCKLINGTON SCHOOL CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Howden Dike Drain BROAD LANE SPS 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Surface Water Sewer To Ditch CLOVERLEY CLOSE SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water West Linelands South Drain MAIN ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Foulness PORT ROYAL SSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Bishopsoil Drain SCALBY LANE CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Tidal River Aire SNAITH SOUTH PUMPING STATION CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Pond WEST END SPS 0 0 99.9

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

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