Scarborough and Whitby was polluted by sewage 1,893 times in 2024
lasting 11,902 hours - that's 1.38 years!

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Totals for Scarborough and Whitby in 2024
64 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,893 sewage dumps
11,902 h duration
That's 1.38 years! On average 5.2 times a day
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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 0 of the total 72 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 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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