Scarborough and Whitby

Polluted by sewage 1,893 times in 2024 lasting 11,902 hours - That's 1.38 years!

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

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Totals for Scarborough and Whitby in 2024

64 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

1,893 sewage dumps

11,902 hours duration

That's 1.38 years! On average 5.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Scarborough and Whitby 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 1 of the total 72 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	Hertford	LEBBERSTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	106	1,530	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Murk Esk	GOATHLAND STW FINAL EFFLUENT	99	724	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Runwick Beck	RUNSWICK BECK CSO	62	713	98.8
Yorkshire Water	Scalby Beck - North Sea	HILLCREST AVENUE	73	639	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	RUSWARP SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	101	587	96.8
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	LYTHE BANK SPS	47	522	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	RUNSWICK BAY SPS	32	462	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	GLAISDALE STW	88	445	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	COW WATH BECK CSO	36	389	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea And River Esk	ENDEAVOUR WHARF PUMPING STATION	98	366	100
Yorkshire Water	Stainsacre Beck	HAWSKER SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	71	358	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hertford Via Ditch	DUNSLOW ROAD SPS	35	314	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Seamer Drain	SEAMER SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	28	309	100
Yorkshire Water	Ditch	CARRS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	27	309	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	WHITBY ROAD BRIDGE CSO	54	303	100
Yorkshire Water	Land	RAVENSCAR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	41	268	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	THE WHEATCROFT SHORT SEA OUTFALL	21	258	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	GROSMONT STW	37	244	99.6
Yorkshire Water	Scalby Beck - North Sea	NEWBY BRIDGE STORM DETENTION TANK	23	231	100
Yorkshire Water	Eller Beck	GOATHLAND GREENWAY SPS	28	225	100
Yorkshire Water	Danby Beck	CASTLETON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	49	206	90
Yorkshire Water	River Hertford	CARRHOUSE LANE CAYTON NO 2 CSO	32	205	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	ROBIN HOODS BAY SEA OUTFALL	31	203	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	EGTON BRIDGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	42	197	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	BRIDGE INN CSO	41	188	97.4
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	DANBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	43	169	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	LEALHOLM SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	17	147	89
Yorkshire Water	Culverted River Hertford	PLAXTONS FACTORY NO 2 CSO	28	144	100
Yorkshire Water	Dales Beck	PORRET LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	33	119	100
Yorkshire Water	Iburndale Beck	LOWDALE LANE NO 2 CSO	29	107	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Unnamed Drain River Hertford	NESFIELD CLOSE CSO	17	106	100
Yorkshire Water	Welldale Beck	SNAINTON NO.2 FOULBRIDGE LANE SPS	15	100	100
Yorkshire Water	Burniston Beck	BURNISTON GARDENS CSO	26	99	98.9
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	SCALBY NESS OUTFALL	54	94	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	LEALHOLM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	34	73	99.5
Yorkshire Water	River Hertford	GRISTHORPE TANK CSO	10	62	86.3
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	LOWER UNDERHILL CSO	12	57	91.8
Yorkshire Water	Land	BURNT HOWE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	25	52	94.8
Yorkshire Water	Upgang Beck	WHITBY GOLF COURSE CSO	23	46	100
Yorkshire Water	River Derwent	AYTON FOOTBRIDGE SSO	22	40	100
Yorkshire Water	Sea Cut	GLYNNDALE DRIVE TANK SEWER	12	39	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	ESPLANADE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	19	30	79.3
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	BROOK PARK NO2 CSO	13	26	99.3
Yorkshire Water	Spital Beck	STAINSACRE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE	20	26	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	TOLL HOUSE STORMWATER OUTFALL	25	20	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	CAYTON BAY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	4	19	100
Yorkshire Water	Upgang Beck	UPGANG LANE SPS	9	18	99.7
Yorkshire Water	Danby Beck	ASH GROVE CSO	10	13	90.2
Yorkshire Water	River Derwent	CARR LANE EAST AYTON CSO	13	13	99.9
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	CORNER CAFE CSO	15	12	100
Yorkshire Water	Upgang Beck	SANDSEND SPS	8	8	99.9
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	COD & LOBSTER SSO	5	6	100
Yorkshire Water	Intake Beck	STAINSACRE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	7	6	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	ROYAL HOTEL CSO	4	6	91.5
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	NEW ROAD BRIDGE CSO	7	5	100
Yorkshire Water	West Beck	MALLYAN SPOUT CSO	2	5	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	PIER ROAD CSO	5	4	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	IVY HOUSE CSO	8	4	100
Yorkshire Water	Bagdale Beck	MAYFIELD ROAD CSO	4	3	100
Yorkshire Water	Holbeck Ravine	HOLBECK HILL CSO	6	2	99.9
Yorkshire Water	To Foul Sewer	CLEVELAND AVENUE SSO	3	1	99.6
Yorkshire Water	River Esk	CRESCENT TERRACE CSO	2	1	100
Yorkshire Water	River Esk Tidal	BOULBY BANK CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Ditch	AISLABY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	1	0	99.8
Yorkshire Water	West Beck / Murk Esk	THE ORCHARD NO 2 CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	NORTH TERRACE CSO	0	0	42.3
Yorkshire Water	River Hertford	LEBBERSTON BALANCING TANK	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Staithes Beck	WESLEY SQUARE STAITHES SPS	0	0	97.8
Yorkshire Water	River Esk Tidal	EAST CRESCENT CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Black Dike	CURLEW DRIVE CSO	0	0	70.1
Yorkshire Water	Iburndale Beck	BIRCH AVENUE CSO	0	0	70.6
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	AQUARIUM TOP STORMWATER OUTFALL	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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Scarborough and Whitby Polluted by sewage 1,893 times in 2024 lasting 11,902 hours - That's 1.38 years! Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

Scarborough and Whitby