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Harrogate and Knaresborough

Polluted by sewage 1,069 times in 2025 lasting 3,909 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Harrogate and Knaresborough in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,903 hours of sewage overflows, from 57 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Harrogate and Knaresborough in 2025

35 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,069 sewage dumps
3,909 hours duration
That's 5.43 months. On average 2.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Harrogate and Knaresborough 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 41 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 Oak Beck HARROGATE NORTH SEWAGE TREATMENT 93 612 99.8
Yorkshire Water Nidd And S KILLINGHALL/HAMPSTHWAITE/KETTLESING 69 457 91.85
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck And Coppice Beck HARROGATE HYDRO CSOS 269 386 95.03
Yorkshire Water River Nidd KNARESBOROUGH WPC WORKS 38 379 99.6
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck CRIMPLE LANE CSO 55 292 99.8
Yorkshire Water Tanner Beck SSO AT STAVELEY 29 285 96
Yorkshire Water Rud Beck SHERWOOD DRIVE CSO 49 230 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd MANSE LANE 57 CSO 59 199 99
Yorkshire Water Hookstone Beck HOOKSTONE ROAD CSO 25 140 100
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck FULWITHMILL FARM N0 2 CSO 24 113 95.5
Yorkshire Water River Nidd CRAGG TOP COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 106 95.7
Yorkshire Water Hookstone Beck CSO-HARROGATE STRAY 18 90 100
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck Or River Crimple BLACK SWAN CSO 27 82 99.2
Yorkshire Water Crimple Beck ALMSFORD AVENUE CSO 33 67 98.8
Yorkshire Water Mill Stream WATERSIDE 47 CSO 28 59 92.1
Yorkshire Water River Crimple Via Sewer CSO ADJ TO STATION BRIDGE 21 56 99.9
Yorkshire Water New Cut SSO AT GOLDSBOROUGH 35 52 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd ABBEY ROAD NO 2 CSO 19 48 80.6
Yorkshire Water Mill Stream WATERSIDE 48 CSO 24 42 88.6
Yorkshire Water River Nidd SPITAL CROFT CSO 21 42 99.4
Yorkshire Water Bilton Beck BILTON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 23 36 92
Yorkshire Water Jumwell Beck LOW MOOR LANE SPS 8 27 100
Yorkshire Water Nidd KILLINGHALL NO 2 CSO 11 26 100
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck OAKDALE AVENUE CSO 18 19 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd WATERSIDE 49 CSO 16 14 98.3
Yorkshire Water Culverted Star Beck FOREST LANE CSO 9 12 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Rud Beck/Publicsewer HOOKSTONE DRIVE NO 2 CSO 9 10 92.3
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Bilton Beck HAMBLETON ROAD CSO 4 4 85.4
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck OAKDALE HARROGATE CSO 3 4 99.8
Yorkshire Water Frogmire Dyke BOROUGHBRIDGE ROAD CSO 5 2 98.3
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck Via Public Sewer UNITY GROVE CSO 5 2 85.7
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck Via A Public Sewer 109 SKIPTON ROAD CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water Rud Beck Via Public Sewer HOOKSTONE GRANGE WAY CSO 1 1 99.9
Yorkshire Water Rud Beck Via A Public Sewer WEDDERBURN SCHOOL CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck Via Public Sewer 35 SKIPTON ROAD CSO 1 0 94.8
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck Via A Public Sewer 33 SKIPTON ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Oak Beck Via A Public Sewer 83 SKIPTON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd ABBEY MILL CSO 0 0 74.6
Yorkshire Water Rud Beck Via A Public Sewer GREENFIELDS ROAD NO3 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Hoohstone Beck STRAY REIN CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Nidd VILLAGE GREEN 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.

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