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Halifax was polluted by sewage 1,869 times in 2023
lasting 10,560 hours - that's 1.22 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Halifax in 2023
33 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,869 sewage dumps
10,560 h duration
That's 1.22 years! On average 5.1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Waterways in Halifax

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Halifax 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 1 of the total 41 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 And Hebble Brook HALIFAX STW 337 3,347 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook HEBBLE LANE CSO 181 2,501 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn NEW INN WEST STREET CSO 141 1,827 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn WEST STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 134 787 100
Yorkshire Water Shibden Beck LEE LANE WPC WORKS 74 455 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHARFE HOUSE CSO 106 318 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook RAGLAN STREET CSO 97 230 98.5
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook HEBBLE BROOK CSO 63 199 99.8
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook JUMPLES CSO 73 113 100
Yorkshire Water Calder+Hebble Navigation Canal WAKEFIELD ROAD 90 CSO 66 110 91.1
Yorkshire Water Brow Lane Sewer WOODFALL SHELF EAST CSO 58 90 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook Culverted MOUNT PELLON CSO 89 89 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOWERBY NEW ROAD CSO 82 87 92.8
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook DODGEHOLME CSO 46 78 95.2
Yorkshire Water River Calder DARK LANE NO 2 CSO 56 70 96.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder BACK WHARF STREET CSO 55 65 65.2
Yorkshire Water Nether Ends Beck STANSFIELD MILL CSO 18 38 93.2
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOWERBY BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STN 30 38 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn LUMB CLOUGH CSO 12 31 81.4
Yorkshire Water Ovenden Brook OVENDEN ROAD CSO 29 26 100
Yorkshire Water Blackshaw Beck EDGE END LANE CSO 10 17 99.3
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook DENE PLACE NO 2 CSO 31 13 99.9
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook KING STREET CSO 19 10 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder TOWN HALL STREET CSO 32 4 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook Culverted PELLON LANE CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn SOWERBY CROFT LANE NO 2 CSO 9 1 99.7
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook SEDBURGH ROAD CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water Rochdale Canal HOLLINS LANE CSO 4 1 96.1
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook BOY LANE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Red Beck SHIBDEN PARK CSO 4 0 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook STANNARY CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Lumb Brook Culverted LUMBROOK NO 2 CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PEAR TREE HOLLINS CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn WATSON MILL LANE CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Calder LONGBOTTOM BRIDGE CSO 0 0 99.1
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook SSO AT FARROW MILL LANE, HALIFAX 0 0 33.7
Yorkshire Water Warley Clough Dams WARLEY CLOUGH CSO 0 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder ROCHDALE CANAL CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Strines Beck HOLDSWORTH ROAD CSO 0 0 91.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder COPLEY VILLAGE SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Ovenden Brook LEE BRIDGE CSO 0 0 96

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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