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Rotherham

Polluted by sewage 762 times in 2025 lasting 3,849 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Rotherham in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Sept 2026, 06:30) there has been 3,127 hours of sewage overflows, from 43 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Rotherham in 2025

28 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
762 sewage dumps
3,849 hours duration
That's 5.35 months. On average 2.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Sewage pollution map of Rotherham: 762 spills in 2025, lasting 3,849 hours, by Yorkshire Water
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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rotherham 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 32 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Don ROTHERHAM ERSKINE ROAD SPS 107 1,507 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EASTWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO 77 378 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother LONG LANE STW 22 219 94.5
Yorkshire Water Greasbrough Dyke SCROOBY STREET CSO 37 207 96.4
Yorkshire Water River Don FITZWILLIAM CENTRE CSO 45 165 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother BRINSWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 49 128 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother TREETON MILL LANE SEW PUMPING STN 29 119 98.7
Yorkshire Water Ochre Dyke GREASBROUGH CSO 47 114 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook ELDERTREE ROAD NO2 SPS 31 109 100
Yorkshire Water Holmes Tail Goit BRINSWORTH STREET SPS 13 93 94.8
Yorkshire Water Herringthorpe Beck VALLEY ROAD NORTH CSO 33 92 100
Yorkshire Water Holmes Tail Goit MASBROUGH STREET CSOO 36 90 80.6
Yorkshire Water Ulley Brook AUGHTON (TREETON LANE) SPS 21 85 99.8
Yorkshire Water Thorpe Dyke THORPE HESLEY CSO 38 83 100
Yorkshire Water Dalton Brook DALTON BROOK CSO 16 78 100
Yorkshire Water Don Via Surface Water Sewer ROTHERHAM (EFFINGHAM SQUARE) SPS 11 72 88.8
Yorkshire Water River Don CLIFTON PARK CSO 24 55 98.1
Yorkshire Water Oakley Bottom Dike DROPPING WELL ROAD SPS 27 48 100
Yorkshire Water River Mas Culverted UNION STREET CSO 29 40 100
Yorkshire Water River Don FOSTERS GARAGE SPS 10 40 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother WHITEHALL LANE CSO 7 25 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Don RAWMARSH ROAD SPS 11 25 100
Yorkshire Water Herringthorpe Beck CLIFTON LORD STREET CSO 15 19 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother CANKLOW CSO 8 18 98.8
Yorkshire Water Holmes Goit JORDAN CSO 11 15 89.2
Yorkshire Water Thorpe Dyke HESLEY LANE CSO 6 14 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WATER LANE ROTHERHAM CSO 1 0 70.4
Yorkshire Water Holmes Tail Goit CLAREMONT STREET CSO 1 0 35.5
Yorkshire Water River Moss BRADGATE LANE NO 2 CSO 0 0 98.6
Yorkshire Water Dalton Brook DALTON LANE CSO 0 0 93.4
Yorkshire Water River Don MARSH STREET CSO/SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother THE MALTINGS 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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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