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Leeds East

Polluted by sewage 407 times in 2025 lasting 2,231 hours

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Live data for Leeds East in 2026

So far this year (as of 11 Aug 2026, 21:46) there has been 1,505 hours of sewage overflows, from 17 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Leeds East in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
407 sewage dumps
2,231 hours duration
That's 3.1 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leeds East 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 Wyke Beck BROOKLANDS LNE/NORTH PARKWAY CSO 45 777 100
Yorkshire Water Beck GARFORTH STORM TANKS NO 1 & 2 51 580 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck FOUNDRY LANE CSO 39 295 100
Yorkshire Water Fleakingley Beck SWILLINGTON (OLD STW) SEWAGE P. STN 43 147 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck STOCKS RISE CSO 37 114 100
Yorkshire Water Lady Beck Culverted ROSEVILLE ROAD CSO 35 85 76
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck SOUTH PARKWAY CSO 51 80 100
Yorkshire Water Gipton Beck HAREHILLS LANE NO 2 CSO 49 76 100
Yorkshire Water Gipton Beck HARES ROAD NO 2 CSO 30 48 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck PARKWAY CLOSE CSO 18 23 90.3
Yorkshire Water Gipton Beck BAYSWATER ROAD CSO 7 2 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck FOUNDRY MILL CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck CROSS GATES CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck FEARNVILLE PLACE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Beck OLD GEORGE CSO 0 0 99.8

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.

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