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Leeds Central and Headingley - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,370 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 30,010 hours , potential overflows 173 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Leeds Central and Headingley for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 244 hours , 508 offline
Feb - 6 hours , 1,464 offline
Mar - 5 hours , 1,488 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 1,440 offline
May - 30 hours , 105 potential
Jun - 10 hours , 3,600 offline
Jul - 70 hours , 3,823 offline
Aug - 9 hours , 3,720 offline
Sept - 178 hours , 3,025 offline
Oct - 194 hours , 68 potential
Nov - 341 hours , 2,880 offline
Dec - 278 hours , 3,053 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Yorkshire Water ABBEYDALE MOUNT/CSO River Aire 69 236 h 29m -
Yorkshire Water DRIVER TERRACE/CSO River Aire 70 177 h 5m -
Yorkshire Water SHEEPSCAR LANE/NO 2 CSO Sheepscar Beck 28 103 h 33m -
Yorkshire Water HOLLIN DRIVE/CSO Meanwood Beck 36 95 h 28m 356 h
Yorkshire Water COMPTON PLACE/CSO Stoney Rock Beck 46 95 h 1m -
Yorkshire Water ROSEVILLE ROAD/CSO Lady Beck Culverted 35 94 h 31m 105 h
Yorkshire Water ACCOMMODATION ROAD/CSO Stoney Rock Beck 33 68 h 19m -
Yorkshire Water VILLAGE PLACE/NO 2 CSO River Aire 31 67 h 32m -
Yorkshire Water OAKFIELD WOOD LANE/CSO Meanwood Beck 4 65 h 53m 68 h
Yorkshire Water HORSFORTH AGY/CSO Cow Beck 29 60 h 17m -
Yorkshire Water WILLOW ROAD/CSO River Aire 24 57 h 42m -
Yorkshire Water HORSFORTH RING ROAD/CSO Oil Mill Beck 29 54 h 33m 77 h
Yorkshire Water MILFORD PLACE/CSO River Aire 30 35 h 32m -
Yorkshire Water HEADINGLEY STATION/CSO Culverted River Aire 20 28 h 11m -
Yorkshire Water MORRIS LANE/CSO Culverted River Aire 18 21 h 32m -
Yorkshire Water SMITHY MILLS LANE/2 CSO Adel Beck 12 18 h 10m 103 h
Yorkshire Water BURLEY LODGE ROAD/CSO River Aire 5 18 h 3m 2,837 h
Yorkshire Water SPEN LANE 185/CSO Culverted River Aire 8 15 h 9m -
Yorkshire Water HAWKSWORTH ROAD/CSO Cow Beck 4 14 h 35m 88 h
Yorkshire Water SKINNER LANE/CSO Lady Beck 8 11 h 59m -
Yorkshire Water CANAL STREET ARMLEY/CSO River Aire 6 11 h 43m 7,631 h
Yorkshire Water VESPER ROAD/CSO Culverted River Aire 9 7 h 17m -
Yorkshire Water THORNVILLE ROAD/CSO River Aire 9 5 h 4m -
Yorkshire Water WEST PARK RING ROAD/CSO Culvert Oil Mill Beck 3 2 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water STONEYROCK LANE/CSO Stoney Rock Beck 5 2 h 25m -
Yorkshire Water MEANWOOD PARK/CSO Meanwood Beck 1 0 h 58m -
Yorkshire Water SPEN LANE 184/CSO Culverted River Aire 1 0 h 29m -
Yorkshire Water VESPER LANE/CSO River Aire 2 0 h 21m -
Yorkshire Water LEEDS WEST PARK/NO 2 CSO Culverted Oil Mill Bck 1 0 h 8m -
Yorkshire Water ADEL RING ROAD/CSO Meanwood Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water ARMLEY ROAD/CSO River Aire 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water WOLSELEY ROAD/CSO River Aire 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water MONKBRIDGE ROAD/CSO Meanwood Beck 0 0 h 5,393 h
Yorkshire Water HIGHBURY MOUNT/CSO Meanwood Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water CARDIGAN LANE/CSO River Aire 0 0 h 8,176 h
Yorkshire Water BYRON STREET/CSO Lady Beck 0 0 h 5,345 h
Yorkshire Water BURLEY ROAD/CSO River Aire 0 0 h -

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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