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Normanton and Hemsworth

Polluted by sewage 597 times in 2025 lasting 4,440 hours

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Live data for Normanton and Hemsworth in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Aug 2026, 19:15) there has been 2,668 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 Normanton and Hemsworth in 2025

22 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
597 sewage dumps
4,440 hours duration
That's 6.17 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Normanton and Hemsworth 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 Hemsworth Dyke SOUTH ELMSALL WWTW 134 818 99.8
Yorkshire Water Hessle Beck FITZWILLIAM SPS 40 736 100
Yorkshire Water River Went ACKWORTH WWTW 51 711 99.9
Yorkshire Water Brook Dike/River Dearne WATH UPON DEARNE WWTW 27 360 100
Yorkshire Water Cold Hiendley Reservoir COLD HIENDLEY STW 41 328 100
Yorkshire Water Oakenshaw Beck CROFTON STW 60 310 99.8
Yorkshire Water Skell WRANGBROOK STW 27 287 100
Yorkshire Water Applehaigh Beck NOTTON SPS 38 285 99.3
Yorkshire Water Hoyle Mill Beck HOYLE MILL LANE SPS 19 103 100
Yorkshire Water Went Beck SHARLSTON (GIN LANE) SPS 19 96 99
Yorkshire Water Went Beck FEATHERSTONE NO 2 CSO 25 74 99.8
Yorkshire Water Went Beck SOUTHFIELD AVENUE SPS 20 70 100
Yorkshire Water Drain Beck SHAY LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 9 60 100
Yorkshire Water Applehaigh Beck BLEAKLEY LANE NO 2 CSO 16 50 100
Yorkshire Water Ashfield Beck KING EDWARD STREET NO 2 CSO 26 44 100
Yorkshire Water Sewerbridge Beck SEWERBRIDGE LANE CSO 7 41 100
Yorkshire Water Sewerbridge Beck FEATHERSTONE LANE (NORTH) SPS 16 32 99
Yorkshire Water Hoyle Mill Drain HEMSWORTH SPS (WOODLANDS) 7 15 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Went KINSLEY WAKEFIELD ROAD CSO 5 7 100
Yorkshire Water Ashfield Beck ASHGAP LANE CSO 5 4 100
Yorkshire Water Lawns Dike, Newmiller Dam SECKAR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 4 2 91.7
Yorkshire Water Hemsworth Dyke GROVE LANE STORM TANKS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Wintersett Reservoir 109 STATION ROAD 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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