Rotherham was polluted by sewage 1,125 times in 2023
lasting 5,232 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Rotherham in 2023
27 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,125 sewage dumps
5,232 h duration
That's 7.27 months. On average 3.1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rotherham 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 2 of the total 33 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Don ROTHERHAM ERSKINE ROAD SPS 104 1,615 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Don EASTWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO 121 723 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother LONG LANE STW 42 430 99.5
Yorkshire Water Greasbrough Dyke SCROOBY STREET CSO 75 326 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Don FITZWILLIAM CENTRE CSO 82 270 100
Yorkshire Water Dalton Brook DALTON BROOK CSO 38 211 98.7
Yorkshire Water River Rother BRINSWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 80 193 100
Yorkshire Water Don Via Surface Water Sewer ROTHERHAM (EFFINGHAM SQUARE) SPS 20 150 93.2
Yorkshire Water River Don CLIFTON PARK CSO 61 146 96.6
Yorkshire Water Ochre Dyke GREASBROUGH CSO 63 134 100
Yorkshire Water River Don WATER LANE ROTHERHAM CSO 24 131 99.8
Yorkshire Water Herringthorpe Beck VALLEY ROAD NORTH CSO 48 118 100
Yorkshire Water Ulley Brook AUGHTON (TREETON LANE) SPS 28 117 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother TREETON MILL LANE SEW PUMPING STN 24 110 99.5
Yorkshire Water Thorpe Dyke THORPE HESLEY CSO 53 100 99.7
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook ELDERTREE ROAD NO2 SPS 33 91 100
Yorkshire Water Holmes Tail Goit BRINSWORTH STREET SPS 19 82 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Mas Culverted UNION STREET CSO 44 56 100
Yorkshire Water Oakley Bottom Dike DROPPING WELL ROAD SPS 43 48 100
Yorkshire Water Herringthorpe Beck CLIFTON LORD STREET CSO 34 45 100
Yorkshire Water River Don RAWMARSH ROAD SPS 30 44 99.9
Yorkshire Water Holmes Goit JORDAN CSO 27 39 84.8
Yorkshire Water River Rother CANKLOW CSO 10 19 100
Yorkshire Water Thorpe Dyke HESLEY LANE CSO 9 18 98.2
Yorkshire Water River Rother THE MALTINGS CSO 9 4 74.4
Yorkshire Water River Don MARSH STREET CSO/SPS 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Moss BRADGATE LANE NO 2 CSO 2 0 72.8
Yorkshire Water River Don FOSTERS GARAGE SPS 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Holmes Tail Goit CLAREMONT STREET CSO 0 0 27.6
Yorkshire Water Holmes Tail Goit MASBROUGH STREET CSOO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Dalton Brook DALTON LANE CSO 0 0 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Rother WHITEHALL LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don CHANTRY BRIDGE CSO 0 0 0

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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