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Penistone and Stocksbridge was polluted by sewage 1,975 times in 2023
lasting 17,780 hours - that's 2.06 years!

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Totals for Penistone and Stocksbridge in 2023
37 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,975 sewage dumps
17,780 h duration
That's 2.06 years! On average 5.4 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Penistone and Stocksbridge in 2023. 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 0 of the total 39 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water Ellhirst Beck HOYLANDSWAINE STW 134 2,246 50
Yorkshire Water Birdwell Dyke TANKERSLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 149 2,135 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Don WHARNCLIFFE SIDE STW 149 1,999 100
Yorkshire Water Tanyard Beck CAWTHORNE WWTW 145 1,542 100
Yorkshire Water Crane Moor Dike CRANE MOOR STW 105 1,534 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Don THURGOLAND SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 144 1,205 99.9
Yorkshire Water Porter Or Little Don River MANCHESTER ROAD WEIR CSO 130 1,125 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EWDEN WWTW 75 1,035 96.1
Yorkshire Water Little Don River HUNSHELF ROAD NO 2 CSO 108 702 94.5
Yorkshire Water River Don SPRINGVALE CSO 83 684 97.1
Yorkshire Water River Don INGBIRCHWORTH STW 125 665 100
Yorkshire Water Sledbrook Dyke CROW EDGE STW 64 592 100
Yorkshire Water House Carr Dike SILKSTONE COMMON (MOOR END) SPS 47 418 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WENTWORTH/BRIDGE END CSO 52 336 99.8
Yorkshire Water Birdwell Dike WOODBINE COTTAGE CSO 49 300 93.5
Yorkshire Water Silkstone Beck SILKSTONE WWTW 52 280 100
Yorkshire Water Highwood Dike WORTLEY EAST WWTW 59 214 99.5
Yorkshire Water Little Don River GIBSON LANE NO 2 CSO 75 194 95.8
Yorkshire Water River Don STOCKSBRIDGE CSO 44 113 100
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Dodworth Dyke KERESFORTH ROAD CSO 32 70 99.5
Yorkshire Water Silkstone Beck SILKSTONE CSO 21 57 100
Yorkshire Water River Don STATION LANE CSO 18 57 88.3
Yorkshire Water Hartley Brook Dike HIGH GREAVE NO 2 CSO 16 39 99.8
Yorkshire Water Rive Don THURLESTONE NO 2 CSO 12 38 100
Yorkshire Water Sledbrook Dyke WHAMS ROAD CSO 13 36 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don CHEESEBOTTOM STW 9 30 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook WHEEL LANE CSO 17 29 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook WARREN LANE SHEFFIELD CSO 19 27 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 8 24 100
Yorkshire Water Tanyard Beck TIVYDALE ROAD CSO 4 14 97.4
Yorkshire Water Cubley Brook GREEN BROOK PLACE CSO 3 12 98.1
Yorkshire Water Porter Or Little Don River MANCHESTER ROAD GARAGE CSO 2 9 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook FALDING STREET CSO 2 4 100
Yorkshire Water Sheffield Lane Dike BARNSLEY ROAD CSO 5 3 92.6
Yorkshire Water Cawthorne Dike CLAY HALL SPS 2 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook PACKHORSE LANE CSO 2 0 94.8
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook WARREN LANE PUBLIC HOUSE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WHARNCLIFFE SIDE SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook BUTTERTHWAITE LANE 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. This 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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