Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley was polluted by sewage 1,113 times in 2023
lasting 6,585 hours

© OpenStreetMap contributors
Contains OS Data © Crown copyright & database right 2021-2023
© Top of the Poops 2021-2023
✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023
Totals for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley in 2023
21 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,113 sewage dumps
6,585 h duration
That's 9.15 months. On average 3 times a day
Change Over Time
Take Action
Your local MP is Yvette Cooper (Labour) - Find out more about their interests, donors, and voting at They Work For You

Constituencies near Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley 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 21 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 River Little Went CARLETON (PONTEFRACT) WWTW 170 1,462 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder MILL LANE WWTW 108 1,297 99.8
Yorkshire Water Wash Dike SOWGATE LANE SPS & STORM TANK SITE 120 1,148 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire MARSH LANE SPS & STORM TANK SITE 94 590 99.85
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHELDALE FARM CSO 34 569 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire AIREDALE STW 120 293 99.7
Yorkshire Water Ashfield Beck STATION ROAD ALTOFTS CSO 54 185 83.6
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHELDON ROAD CSO 63 167 99.7
Yorkshire Water Fryston Beck FERRYBRIDGE SPS & STORM TANK SITE 32 166 100
Yorkshire Water Wain Dike Beck CASTLEFORD LANE/CASTLEFORD RD CSO 37 144 97.65
Yorkshire Water Aire A1/A645 SLIP ROAD SSO 43 107 100
Yorkshire Water Town Dyke KNOTTINGLEY COMMON LANE SPS 37 104 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire FRYSTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 16 100 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHELDALE (CASTLEFORD) STW 28 66 100
Yorkshire Water Wash Dike BONDGATE CSO 38 64 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Beck CARR LANE SPS 42 40 100
Yorkshire Water Choke Churl Beck ALTOFTS CHURCH ROAD CSO 22 31 99.5
Yorkshire Water Carr Beck YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LTD,AKETON 42 19 100
Yorkshire Water Willowbridge Beck WHITWOOD (WHITWOOD LANE) SPS 3 15 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire JAMES STREET SPS 2 5 94.5
Yorkshire Water River Aire ALL SAINTS CHURCH CSO 8 4 99.8

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.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.