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Leeds North West

Polluted by sewage 799 times in 2025 lasting 4,881 hours

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Live data for Leeds North West in 2026

So far this year (as of 10 Aug 2026, 20:31) there has been 3,985 hours of sewage overflows, from 33 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Leeds North West in 2025

26 Sites polluted by South West Water Yorkshire Water
799 sewage dumps
4,881 hours duration
That's 6.78 months. On average 2.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leeds North West 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 Wharfe POOL WPC WORKS 92 1,080 100
South West Water Holbeck/Wharfe STUBBINGS FARM 76 973 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire RAWDON TRANSFER SPS 84 815 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WOODLANDS CLOSE CSO 54 679 82.5
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe OTLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 42 367 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Wharfe CROOK FARM CSO 44 141 100
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck ADEL CHURCH LANE CSO 36 135 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BILLAMS HILL SSO 49 132 99.9
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck BUCKSTONE ROAD CSO 43 129 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WOODLANDS DRIVE CSO 31 93 100
Yorkshire Water Oil Mill Beck LOW LANE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 34 57 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY ROAD 28 52 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ARTHINGTON LANE CSO 20 41 100
Yorkshire Water Nunroyd Beck GHYLL ROYD CSO 18 34 100
Yorkshire Water Nun Royd Beck KIRK LANE NO 1 CSO 32 30 99.8
Yorkshire Water Wharfe WARREN LANE SPS 8 28 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRIDGE STREET SSO 11 23 67.9
Yorkshire Water Mire Beck Via Sws NETHERFIELD ROAD CSO 10 22 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe Via Public Sewer WEST BUSK LANE NO 2 CSO 19 20 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire CLAREMONT 271 CSO 13 8 96
Yorkshire Water River Aire FRASER AVENUE CSO 6 3 97.2
Yorkshire Water River Aire NEWLAY LANE 266 CSO 10 3 100
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck STAIRFOOT LANE CSO 3 2 82.9
Yorkshire Water River Aire VICTORIA GARDENS CSO 8 2 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Adel Beck OTLEY ROAD ADEL CSO 4 2 100
Yorkshire Water Adel Beck BYWATER FARM CSO 24 0 94.7
Yorkshire Water Nun Royd Beck KIRK LANE NO 2 CSO 0 0 84.9
Yorkshire Water River Aire NEWLAY LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Kirkstall Forge Goit Via Sws NEWLAY WOOD CRESCENT CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire UNDERWOOD DRIVE CSO 0 0 99.5

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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