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Leeds South West and Morley

Polluted by sewage 473 times in 2025 lasting 1,253 hours

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Live data for Leeds South West and Morley in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 22:15) there has been 585 hours of sewage overflows, from 20 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Leeds South West and Morley in 2025

17 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
473 sewage dumps
1,253 hours duration
That's 1.74 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leeds South West and Morley 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 Ringshaw Beck DALE FARM CSO 59 197 97.4
Yorkshire Water Mill Shaw Beck WIDE LANE WOODLANDS NO 2 CSO 49 188 96.2
Yorkshire Water Owler Beck WIDE LANE MORLEY CSO 58 176 99.9
Yorkshire Water Farnley Wood Beck ST BERNARDS MILL NO 2 CSO 49 144 100
Yorkshire Water Cotton Mill Beck DEWSBURY ROAD 51 NO2 CSO 50 119 100
Yorkshire Water Bowling Beck THE FALLS SPS 19 106 98.4
Yorkshire Water Farnley Wood Beck DEAN BECK CSO 38 97 100
Yorkshire Water Clvrtd Dean Beck ROOMS LANE NO 2 CSO 30 66 99.9
Yorkshire Water Farnley Wood Beck WELLFIELD TERRACE CSO 37 63 100
Yorkshire Water Farnley Beck FARNLEY RING ROAD CSO 22 40 100
Yorkshire Water Hey Beck HAIGH HALL CSO 14 30 100
Yorkshire Water Millshaw Beck EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 22 13 100
Yorkshire Water Farnley Wood Beck CHURWELL HILL CSO 5 3 100
Yorkshire Water C. Lingwell Gate Beck EAST ARDSLEY NO 2 CSO 6 3 100
Yorkshire Water Farnley Beck STONEBRIDGE LANE CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water Wortley Beck EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Cock Beck LUMB WOOD CSO 5 1 100
Yorkshire Water Dean Beck GELDERD ROAD CSO 0 0 98.5
Yorkshire Water Cock Beck SPRING GARDENS CSO 0 0 79.5
Yorkshire Water Denshaw Beck TIGLEY CSO, TINGLEY 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Cotton Mill Beck YORKSHIRE WATER AUTHORITY STORM OVE 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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