Top of the Poops | Constituency Sewage Map | Leeds Central and Headingley

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Live data for Leeds Central and Headingley in 2026

So far this year (as of 8 Sept 2026, 07:00) there has been 1,092 hours of sewage overflows, from 37 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Leeds Central and Headingley in 2025

21 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

543 sewage dumps

1,130 hours duration

That's 1.57 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leeds Central and Headingley 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 Aire	ABBEYDALE MOUNT CSO	74	258	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	WILLOW RD, BURLEY LODGE RD & THORNV	59	146	100
Yorkshire Water	Meanwood Beck	HOLLIN DRIVE CSO	46	137	98.2
Yorkshire Water	Sheepscar Beck	SHEEPSCAR LANE NO 2 CSO	30	118	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	VILLAGE PLACE NO 2CSO	43	79	99.4
Yorkshire Water	Cow Beck	YORKSHIRE WATER HORSFORTH TRANSFER	37	71	100
Yorkshire Water	Oil Mill Beck	HORSFORTH RING ROAD CSO	43	68	98.3
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Aire	MORRIS LANE CSO	37	59	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	ST PAUL'S STREET CSO	18	50	98
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	MILFORD PLACE CSO	36	43	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Aire	HEADINGLEY STATION CSO	21	29	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Adel Beck	SMITHY MILLS LANE CSO	22	27	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Lady Beck	SKINNER LANE CSO	7	13	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Aire	VESPER ROAD CSO	21	9	100
Yorkshire Water	Meanwood Beck	MEANWOOD PARK CSO	12	7	99.2
Yorkshire Water	Culvert Oil Mill Beck	WEST PARK RING ROAD CSO	8	3	100
Yorkshire Water	Cow Beck	HAWKSWORTH ROAD, HORSFORTH CSO	7	3	85.6
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Aire	SPEN LANE 184 CSO	5	1	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	VESPER LANE CSO	13	1	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Oil Mill Bck	LEEDS WEST PARK CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Aire	SPEN LANE 185 CSO	2	0	99.1
Yorkshire Water	Meanwood Beck	ADEL RING ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	ARMLEY ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	BURLEY ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Lady Beck	BYRON STREET CSO	0	0	93.3
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	CARDIGAN LANE CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Sheepscar Beck Via Sws	CROWTHER PLACE CSO	0	0	99.7
Yorkshire Water	Lady Beck	EASTGATE LEEDS NO 2 CSO	0	0	81.7
Yorkshire Water	Meanwood Beck	HIGHBURY MOUNT CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Meanwood Beck	MONKBRIDGE ROAD CSO	0	0	57.7
Yorkshire Water	Meanwood Beck	OAKFIELD WOOD LANE CSO	0	0	69.8
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	WOLSELEY 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

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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