Halifax was polluted by sewage 1,556 times in 2024
lasting 7,941 hours

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Totals for Halifax in 2024
40 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,556 sewage dumps
7,941 h duration
That's 11.03 months. On average 4.3 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Halifax 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 0 of the total 41 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 Hebble Brook HEBBLE LANE CSO 178 2,744 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder And Hebble Brook HALIFAX STW 276 1,774 99.73
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn NEW INN WEST STREET CSO 122 1,392 95.4
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn WEST STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 137 548 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHARFE HOUSE CSO 80 194 97.1
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook RAGLAN STREET CSO 74 182 100
Yorkshire Water Shibden Beck LEE LANE WPC WORKS 43 150 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook HEBBLE BROOK CSO 48 131 98.3
Yorkshire Water Calder+Hebble Navigation Canal WAKEFIELD ROAD 90 CSO 64 107 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOWERBY NEW ROAD CSO 74 95 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook JUMPLES CSO 48 89 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder LONGBOTTOM BRIDGE CSO 16 88 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook Culverted MOUNT PELLON CSO 57 71 98.6
Yorkshire Water Brow Lane Sewer WOODFALL SHELF EAST CSO 35 46 100
Yorkshire Water Blackshaw Beck EDGE END LANE CSO 36 43 98.8
Yorkshire Water Nether Ends Beck STANSFIELD MILL CSO 16 43 30.1
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook DENE PLACE NO 2 CSO 18 35 99.9
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook DODGEHOLME CSO 22 30 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder DARK LANE NO 2 CSO 26 29 93.6
Yorkshire Water Strines Beck HOLDSWORTH ROAD CSO 12 27 100
Yorkshire Water Ovenden Brook OVENDEN ROAD CSO 16 21 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PEAR TREE HOLLINS CSO 37 18 91.5
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn LUMB CLOUGH CSO 10 16 89.8
Yorkshire Water Rochdale Canal HOLLINS LANE CSO 15 11 93.9
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook KING STREET CSO 13 9 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn WATSON MILL LANE CSO 8 8 10.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder BACK WHARF STREET CSO 28 7 61.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder TOWN HALL STREET CSO 17 2 100
Yorkshire Water Lumb Brook Culverted LUMBROOK NO 2 CSO 3 2 100
Yorkshire Water Red Beck SHIBDEN PARK CSO 4 2 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook BOY LANE CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder SOWERBY BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STN 2 2 99.9
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook Culverted PELLON LANE CSO 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook STANNARY CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water Ovenden Brook LEE BRIDGE CSO 4 1 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder ROCHDALE CANAL CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook SEDBURGH ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn SOWERBY CROFT LANE NO 2 CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Warley Clough Dams WARLEY CLOUGH CSO 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder COPLEY VILLAGE SPS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook SSO AT FARROW MILL LANE, HALIFAX 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. 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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