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Leeds Central and Headingley was polluted by sewage 786 times in 2023
lasting 1,383 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Leeds Central and Headingley in 2023
24 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
786 sewage dumps
1,383 h duration
That's 1.92 months. On average 2.2 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leeds Central and Headingley 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 32 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 Aire MILFORD PLACE CSO 72 207 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire ABBEYDALE MOUNT CSO 70 187 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WILLOW RD, BURLEY LODGE RD & THORNV 81 175 84.4
Yorkshire Water Sheepscar Beck SHEEPSCAR LANE NO 2 CSO 51 159 99.9
Yorkshire Water Cow Beck YORKSHIRE WATER HORSFORTH TRANSFER 53 98 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire VILLAGE PLACE NO 2CSO 63 95 100
Yorkshire Water Oil Mill Beck HORSFORTH RING ROAD CSO 61 82 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire ST PAUL'S STREET CSO 23 66 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Aire SPEN LANE 184 CSO 37 63 99.8
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Aire VESPER ROAD CSO 50 58 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Aire HEADINGLEY STATION CSO 34 38 100
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck HOLLIN DRIVE CSO 29 36 99.8
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck SMITHY MILLS LANE CSO 24 35 100
Yorkshire Water Lady Beck SKINNER LANE CSO 9 22 99.8
Yorkshire Water Culverted Oil Mill Bck LEEDS WEST PARK CSO 27 19 100
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck MEANWOOD PARK CSO 18 12 96.8
Yorkshire Water Culvert Oil Mill Beck WEST PARK RING ROAD CSO 24 8 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire VESPER LANE CSO 32 6 100
Yorkshire Water Cow Beck HAWKSWORTH ROAD, HORSFORTH CSO 17 6 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WOLSELEY ROAD CSO 4 1 98.7
Yorkshire Water River Aire CARDIGAN LANE CSO 3 1 99
Yorkshire Water River Aire ARMLEY ROAD CSO 2 1 89.2
Yorkshire Water Lady Beck BYRON STREET CSO 1 0 83.5
Yorkshire Water Lady Beck EASTGATE LEEDS NO 2 CSO 1 0 71.7
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck HIGHBURY MOUNT CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck OAKFIELD WOOD LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck ADEL RING ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BURLEY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Aire MORRIS LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Aire SPEN LANE 185 CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Sheepscar Beck Via Sws CROWTHER PLACE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck MONKBRIDGE ROAD CSO 0 0 12.7

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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