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Leeds West and Pudsey

Polluted by sewage 932 times in 2025 lasting 3,140 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Leeds West and Pudsey in 2026

So far this year (as of 16 Aug 2026, 13:15) there has been 1,878 hours of sewage overflows, from 35 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Leeds West and Pudsey in 2025

29 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
932 sewage dumps
3,140 hours duration
That's 4.36 months. On average 2.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leeds West and Pudsey 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 1 of the total 35 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Aire RODLEY STORM TANK SITE 129 1,121 100
Yorkshire Water Farnley Beck HOUGH SIDE WORKS CSO 86 540 99.8
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck BAGLEY BECK RODLEY CSO 43 201 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire DRIVER TERRACE CSO 80 198 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Aire MOSS BRIDGE ROAD CSO 51 167 99.4
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck RODLEY BAGLEY LANE CSO 62 153 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire STANNINGLEY ROAD CSO 53 146 99.8
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck DAWSONS CORNER CSO 48 99 62.5
Yorkshire Water Leeds CALVERLEY EAST NO 2 CSO 52 83 94.7
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck STANNINGLEY CSO 49 67 97
Yorkshire Water Cul Tyersal Beck DICK LNE CSO & NEW LNE SPS 19 63 99.9
Yorkshire Water Clvrtd Pudsey Beck LOWTOWN CSO 37 52 100
Yorkshire Water Tyersal Beck PUDSEY (SMALEWELL) CSO 18 44 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck Culverted BAGLEY LANE 39 CSO 30 39 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire LEDGARD WAY CSO 27 36 96.2
Yorkshire Water Carr Beck BECK BOTTOM CSO 16 26 85
Yorkshire Water Pudesy Beck HOUGHSIDE ROAD CSO 22 26 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WYTHER LANE NO.2 CSO 33 22 100
Yorkshire Water Pudsey Beck KENT ROAD CSO 17 18 100
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck SPRING VALLEY NO2 CSO 16 13 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Aire CANAL ROAD CSO 11 5 100
Yorkshire Water Leeds/Liverpool Canal LODGE FARM NO1 CSO 12 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHITECOTE HILL CSO 10 4 98
Yorkshire Water Culv Leeds/Lpool Canal TOWN GATE CALVER CSO 4 2 93.4
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck FULNECK CSO 1 1 74.3
Yorkshire Water River Aire BROADLEA HILL CSO 1 0 93
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck Culverted BROOM MILLS CSO 2 0 99.4
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHITECOTE RISE CSO 1 0 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Aire CANAL STREET CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Aire ISLAND (RIVER AIRE) CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck RICHARDSHAW LANE NO2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck SOUTH DRIVE NO 2 CSO 0 0 96.6
Yorkshire Water Farnley Beck SWINNOW VIEW CSO 0 0 93.1
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck TOWN STREET RODLEY CSO 0 0 99.7

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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