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Huddersfield

Polluted by sewage 1,455 times in 2025 lasting 5,498 hours

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Live data for Huddersfield in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 21:46) there has been 3,234 hours of sewage overflows, from 61 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Huddersfield in 2025

49 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,455 sewage dumps
5,498 hours duration
That's 7.64 months. On average 4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Huddersfield 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 %
Yorkshire Water River Calder HUDDERSFIELD STW 254 1,532 97.95
Yorkshire Water River Colne THISTLE STREET CSO 117 1,122 100
Yorkshire Water Round Wood Beck WATERLOO ROAD NO2 CSO 69 386 100
Yorkshire Water Lees Head Beck DALTON ICI NORTH NO 2 CSO 65 325 100
Yorkshire Water Fenay Beck FENAY BRIDGE TANK CSO 30 146 100
Yorkshire Water Cinderfield Dike BRADLEY LEEDS ROAD CSO 45 139 100
Yorkshire Water Lees Hd Beck Colne/Calder DALTON ICI SOUTH CSO 22 136 98.4
Yorkshire Water River Holme STOCKWELL HILL CSO 38 118 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne COLNE ROAD CSO 37 117 99.1
Yorkshire Water Calder EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 52 117 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne RED DOLES ROAD CSO 44 108 100
Yorkshire Water Fenay Beck FENAY LANE CSO 31 107 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Colne PADDOCK FOOT CSO 48 99 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne NEWSOME ROAD CSO 40 90 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne DAISY STREET CSO 31 89 87.5
Yorkshire Water River Colne GASWORKS STREET CSO 49 85 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme ARMITAGE FOLD CSO 54 84 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne LONGROYD MANCH ROAD CSO 47 65 57.3
Yorkshire Water Oxfield Beck LAKE SIDE LANE SSO 9 65 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Colne ANCHOR STREET CSO 34 63 100
Yorkshire Water Round Wood Beck DALTON WAKEFIELD ROAD CSO 28 49 100
Yorkshire Water Lees Head Beck DALTON LONG LANE NO 2 CSO 23 45 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne WILLOW LANE BECK CSO 28 37 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne BRADLEY MILLS ROAD SPS 3 36 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme WATER STREET CSO 32 35 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne WILLOW LANE CSO 27 34 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne BEN SHAWS CSO 18 32 72.4
Yorkshire Water River Colne CARR PIT ROAD CSO 10 32 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne KINGS MILL LANE NO 2 CSO 9 30 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne LONGLEY PARK CSO 9 30 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Colne EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 23 20 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne DOG KENNEL BANK/SOMERSET ROAD CSO 13 17 100
Yorkshire Water Huddersfield Brd Canal BRADLEY ROAD NO'S 1 & 2 CSO 15 14 73.5
Yorkshire Water Varies With Outlet EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 13 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme LOCKWOOD SCAR CSO 9 13 100
Yorkshire Water Penny Dike ASPLEY WAKEFIELD ROAD CSO 13 12 100
Yorkshire Water Colne JACK HILL CSO 11 12 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne Via Birkby Relief FARTOWN BRADFORD ROAD CSO 17 11 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder COOPER BRIDGE CSO 9 6 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Colne CROSLAND ST/BLACKMOORFOOT RD CSO 15 5 100
Yorkshire Water Cinderfield Dike COLLIERY LANE CSO 2 4 100
Yorkshire Water Clayton Dike DEVERON GROVE NO 2 CSO 7 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne WHITEHEAD LANE CSO 5 1 100
Yorkshire Water Huddersfield Broad Can OAK ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne ALANDALE ROAD BRADLEY CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culv Hebble Beck CASTLEGATE BRADFORD CSO 1 0 93.1
Yorkshire Water River Colne ST THOMAS ROAD CSO 2 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Colne IVY STREET CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne LONGROYD MANCH ROAD CSO 1 0 92.3
Yorkshire Water Fenay Beck ALMONDBURY CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Holme BEAUMONT PARK CSO 0 0 70.8
Yorkshire Water River Colne BROOK MOTORS CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne CHARLIE BROWNS CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Grimscar Dike CRESCENT ROAD CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Sewer To River Colne LEEDS ROAD SPS (ICI) 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne LONGROYD BRIDGE CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Holme QUEENS MILL ROAD (OFF) 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne SPRINGDALE MILLS CSO 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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