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Leeds North East

Polluted by sewage 556 times in 2025 lasting 1,334 hours

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Live data for Leeds North East in 2026

So far this year (as of 16 Aug 2026, 14:16) there has been 1,084 hours of sewage overflows, from 24 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Leeds North East in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
556 sewage dumps
1,334 hours duration
That's 1.85 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 North 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 Adel Beck MEANWOOD PARK SIDE CSO 57 341 98.1
Yorkshire Water King Lane Beck HARROGATE ROAD 135 CSO 67 199 99.9
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck ELMETE LANE CSO 17 119 96.8
Yorkshire Water Gipton Beck HAREHILLS AVENUE NO 2 CSO 48 99 100
Yorkshire Water Gledhow Beck GLEDHOW LANE CSO 41 84 91.9
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck CLAREMONT CRESCENT NO.2 CSO 41 72 98.2
Yorkshire Water Sturdy Beck WIGTON MOOR SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 24 70 100
Yorkshire Water Gledhow Beck ALLERTON PARK CSO 39 69 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck ROUNDHAY 110 CSO 37 67 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Wyke Beck ROUNDHAY 109 NO 2 CSO 38 60 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck ROUNDHAY PARK LANE CSO 37 49 100
Yorkshire Water Wyke Beck LIDGETT PARK ROAD CSO 22 31 100
Yorkshire Water Sheepscar Beck SHEEPSCAR WAY CSO 24 22 100
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck BLACKMOOR ROAD NO.2 CSO 21 20 100
Yorkshire Water Gledhow Beck ALLERTON GRANGE CSO 17 16 100
Yorkshire Water Fox Wood Beck DEVONSHIRE CRESCENT CSO 14 8 100
Yorkshire Water Gipton Beck ROUNDHAY MOUNT NO 2 CSO 11 4 100
Yorkshire Water Stain Beck CARR MANOR ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Stain Beck EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck MEANWOOD ROAD CSO 0 0 76.6
Yorkshire Water Sheepscar Beck NORTHSIDE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Meanwood Beck STONEGATE (CSO 174) CSO 0 0 97.2
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck VALLEY FARM 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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