Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley was polluted by sewage 800 times in 2024
lasting 4,350 hours

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Totals for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley in 2024
21 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
800 sewage dumps
4,350 h duration
That's 6.04 months. On average 2.2 times a day
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Constituencies near Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley in 2024. 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 Calder MILL LANE WWTW 117 1,149 99.9
Yorkshire Water Wash Dike SOWGATE LANE SPS & STORM TANK SITE 103 820 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire MARSH LANE SPS & STORM TANK SITE 86 783 100
Yorkshire Water River Little Went CARLETON (PONTEFRACT) WWTW 115 645 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHELDON ROAD CSO 59 199 100
Yorkshire Water Wain Dike Beck CASTLEFORD LANE/CASTLEFORD RD CSO 47 184 100
Yorkshire Water Ashfield Beck STATION ROAD ALTOFTS CSO 48 150 100
Yorkshire Water Town Dyke KNOTTINGLEY COMMON LANE SPS 35 92 100
Yorkshire Water Aire A1/A645 SLIP ROAD SSO 29 74 100
Yorkshire Water Wash Dike BONDGATE CSO 28 47 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHELDALE (CASTLEFORD) STW 19 41 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Beck CARR LANE SPS 34 33 100
Yorkshire Water Fryston Beck FERRYBRIDGE SPS & STORM TANK SITE 10 29 57.7
Yorkshire Water Choke Churl Beck ALTOFTS CHURCH ROAD CSO 19 24 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire FRYSTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 9 20 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire AIREDALE STW 6 19 6.5
Yorkshire Water Carr Beck YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LTD,AKETON 14 14 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire JAMES STREET SPS 5 7 99.8
Yorkshire Water Willowbridge Beck WHITWOOD (WHITWOOD LANE) SPS 2 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire ALL SAINTS CHURCH CSO 9 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WHELDALE FARM CSO 6 1 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.

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