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Keighley and Ilkley

Polluted by sewage 1,519 times in 2025 lasting 8,739 hours - That's 1.01 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Keighley and Ilkley in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 4,343 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 Keighley and Ilkley in 2025

40 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,519 sewage dumps
8,739 hours duration
That's 12.14 months. On average 4.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Keighley and Ilkley 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 51 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 Wharfe BEN RHYDDING (ILKLEY) WPC WORKS, ST 127 1,758 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire KEIGHLEY (MARLEY) STW 183 1,632 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 136 1,025 97
Yorkshire Water Bridge House Beck OXENHOPE WWTW 61 708 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVIL CRESCENT CSO 80 594 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ADDINGHAM PUMPING STATION 69 431 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire MORTON CSO 94 378 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WHEATLEY LANE 2 CSO 49 255 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BRADFORD ROAD 51 234 90
Yorkshire Water Mill Stream EASTBURN OLD STW CSO 59 220 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe MIDDLETON (ILKLEY) PUMPING STATION 24 214 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire KEIGHLEY ROAD 76 CSO 54 169 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Worth WORTH WAY NORTH BECK CSO 34 138 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth MYTHOLMES LANE CSO 42 126 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth HAWORTH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 39 118 97.9
Yorkshire Water River Worth LONG LEE LANE CSO 45 97 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire CEMETERY LANE CSO 29 94 78.4
Yorkshire Water Steeton Beck STEETON CSO 51 85 68.1
Yorkshire Water River Aire BRADFORD ROAD 5 CSO 42 62 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 24 57 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire GRANGE ROAD 7 CSO 27 50 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SSO 250 METRES DOWNSTREAM 20 48 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire KING GEORGE CSO 20 37 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth BRANDY MILL 34 CSO 19 37 87
Yorkshire Water River Worth INGROW BRIDGE CSO 17 36 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Worth WORTH WAY SUN STREET CSO 26 22 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth Via Knowle Pk Spng SOUTH STREET KEIGHLEY CSO 25 21 99.8
Yorkshire Water Town Beck LOW MILL LANE 179 CSO 6 17 95.8
Yorkshire Water Mill Stream Eastburn Beck LYON ROAD NO 2 CSO 7 15 100
Yorkshire Water Bridgehouse Beck BELLE ISLE ROAD CSO 16 13 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth INGROW LANE CSO 4 13 100
Yorkshire Water Gingerbread Clough SPRING BANK CSO 2 9 100
Yorkshire Water Hog Holes Beck GLEN LEE LANE CSO 18 5 74.6
Yorkshire Water River Worth SOUTH GOODS YARD CSO 8 2 100
Yorkshire Water Silsden Beck CLOG BRIDGE CSO 3 1 64.2
Yorkshire Water River Worth PITT STREET CSO 3 1 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Aire BAR LANE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth THE WALK CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WAVERLEY AVENUE CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth WOODHOUSE ROAD 36 CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BRIDGE INN KEIGHLEY CSO 0 0 87.7
Yorkshire Water Spicey Gill BRIDGE LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 96.8
Yorkshire Water River Worth CLOUGHS MILL NO 2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth CONEY LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth DAMEMS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe LEEDS ROAD ILKLEY NO2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth LONG LEE LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Worth LOW MILL LANE CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Silsden Beck ST JOHN STREET CSO 0 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Worth WOODHOUSE ROAD 38 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVILL ROAD 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.

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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