Scarborough and Whitby - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,516 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 53,706 hours , potential overflows 384 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Scarborough and Whitby so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

Totals for Scarborough and Whitby in 2026

Sewage6,516 hours
Monitoring offline53,706 hours
Potential pollution384 hours
Storm overflows79

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Daily Data

Jan - 2,310 hours , 119 potential
Feb - 3,212 hours , 265 potential
Mar - 195 hours , 5,952 offline
Apr - 104 hours , 5,904 offline
May - 89 hours , 7,219 offline
Jun - 0 hours , 6,256 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 5,208 offline
Aug - 246 hours , 5,223 offline
Sept - 15 hours , 5,229 offline
Oct - 342 hours , 4,160 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Yorkshire Water LEBBERSTON/CSO Hertford 64 1,049h 11m -
Yorkshire Water DUNSLOW ROAD/CSO River Hertford Via Ditch 75 940h 50m 58 h
Yorkshire Water RUNSWICK BECK/CSO Culverted Runwick Beck 32 613h 21m -
Yorkshire Water COW WATH BECK/CSO North Sea 36 417h 55m -
Yorkshire Water GOATHLAND/NO 3 STW Murk Esk 50 387h 54m -
Yorkshire Water RUSWARP/CSO River Esk 58 317h 57m -
Yorkshire Water GLAISDALE/STW River Esk 36 211h 33m -
Yorkshire Water RUSWARP CARRS/SPS Ditch 22 205h 30m -
Yorkshire Water LEBBERSTON TANK/CSO River Hertford 16 201h -
Yorkshire Water HILLCREST AV TANK/CSO Scalby Beck - North Sea 16 189h 17m -
Yorkshire Water LYTHE BANK/CSO North Sea 13 153h 41m -
Yorkshire Water SCARBOROUGH/STW/STORM TREATMENT North Sea 32 153h 33m -
Yorkshire Water BOTTON/STW Danby Beck 18 137h 57m 7 h
Yorkshire Water CLEVELAND AVENUE/CSO To Foul Sewer 7 123h 50m 265 h
Yorkshire Water HAWSKER/NO 2 CSO Stainsacre Beck 13 120h 11m -
Yorkshire Water SLEIGHTS/CSO River Esk 19 113h 10m -
Yorkshire Water WHITBY ROAD BDG/CSO North Sea 14 94h 4m -
Yorkshire Water HOLBECK HILL/CSO Holbeck Ravine 40 92h 13m 452 h
Yorkshire Water EGTON BRIDGE/STW River Esk 14 86h 25m -
Yorkshire Water NEWBY BRIDGE TANK/CSO Scalby Beck - North Sea 7 82h 52m -
Yorkshire Water RAVENSCAR/STW Land 9 59h 49m -
Yorkshire Water MICKLEBY/STW Mickelby Beck 15 57h 51m -
Yorkshire Water SANDSEND ROAD/CSO Upgang Beck 19 57h 17m -
Yorkshire Water CARRHOUSE LN CAYTON/2 CSO River Hertford 7 53h 44m 33 h
Yorkshire Water GROSMONT/STW River Esk 5 52h 35m -
Yorkshire Water GOATHLAND GRNWAY/CSO Eller Beck 8 48h 31m -
Yorkshire Water DANBY/STW River Esk 18 48h -
Yorkshire Water SCALBY MILLS/CSO North Sea 14 36h 13m -
Yorkshire Water PLAXTONS FACTORY/NO 2 CSO Culverted River Hertford 11 33h 2m -
Yorkshire Water PORRET LANE/NO 2 CSO Dales Beck 7 32h 16m -
Yorkshire Water ENDEAVOUR WHARF/CSO North Sea And River Esk 16 30h 8m -
Yorkshire Water BRIDGE INN/CSO River Esk 11 30h 5m 205 h
Yorkshire Water ROBIN HOODS BAY LWR/CSO North Sea 4 27h 50m -
Yorkshire Water LOWDALE LANE/NO 2 CSO Iburndale Beck 11 27h 47m -
Yorkshire Water FOULBRIDGE LANE/CSO Welldale Beck 3 27h 22m -
Yorkshire Water GROSMONT/STW River Esk 7 23h 17m -
Yorkshire Water BURNISTON GARDENS/2 CSO Burniston Beck 4 21h 38m -
Yorkshire Water ENDEAVOUR WHARF/CSO North Sea And River Esk 8 21h 1m -
Yorkshire Water NESFIELD CLOSE/CSO Unnamed Drain River Hertford 4 19h 22m -
Yorkshire Water CASTLETON/SPS Danby Beck 3 17h 36m -
Yorkshire Water LEALHOLM/STW River Esk 5 15h 46m -
Yorkshire Water LEALHOLM SCHOOL/CSO River Esk 4 14h 56m -
Yorkshire Water THE ORCHARDS/NO 2 CSO West Beck / Murk Esk 5 13h 50m -
Yorkshire Water ESPLANADE WHITBY/CSO River Esk 6 10h 28m -
Yorkshire Water GLYNNDALE DRIVE/CSO Sea Cut 4 9h 5m -
Yorkshire Water WHITBY GOLF COURSE/CSO Upgang Beck 2 5h 54m -
Yorkshire Water CURLEW DRIVE/CSO Black Dike 2 5h 53m -
Yorkshire Water FAIRFIELD WAY/CSO Spital Beck 8 5h 48m -
Yorkshire Water CORNER CAFE/NO 2 CSO North Sea 2 2h 56m -
Yorkshire Water ASH GROVE CASTLETON/CSO Danby Beck 7 2h 37m -
Yorkshire Water SEAMER/STW Seamer Drain 7 2h 31m -
Yorkshire Water FOOTBRIDGE WST AYTON/CSO River Derwent 2 2h 4m -
Yorkshire Water GRISTHORPE TANK/CSO River Hertford 1 1h 59m -
Yorkshire Water STAINSACRE/CSO Intake Beck 1 1h 15m -
Yorkshire Water IVY HOUSE/CSO River Esk 1 0h 43m -
Yorkshire Water TOLL HOUSE/SPS North Sea 2 0h 37m -
Yorkshire Water AQUARIUM TOP/CSO North Sea 1 0h 35m 6,574 h
Yorkshire Water BOULBY BANK/CSO River Esk Tidal 1 0h 24m -
Yorkshire Water UPGANG LANE/NO 2 CSO Upgang Beck 1 0h 17m -
Yorkshire Water MAYFIELD ROAD/NO 2 CSO Bagdale Beck 1 0h 15m -
Yorkshire Water BROOK PARK/NO 2 CSO River Esk 1 0h 8m -
Yorkshire Water BURNT HOWE RAVENSCAR/CSO Groundwater 1 0h 7m -
Yorkshire Water WHEATCROFT/CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water AISLABY/CSO Ditch 0 0h 3,710 h
Yorkshire Water NEW ROAD BRIDGE/CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water RUNSWICK BAY LOWER/CSO North Sea 0 0h 6,627 h
Yorkshire Water ROYAL HOTEL/CSO River Esk 0 0h 4,463 h
Yorkshire Water MALLYAN SPOUT/CSO West Beck 0 0h 7,149 h
Yorkshire Water WHITBY PIER ROAD/CSO River Esk 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water CAYTON BAY/CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water WESLEY SQR STAITHES/CSO Staithes Beck 0 0h 6,627 h
Yorkshire Water LOWER UNDER HILL/CSO River Esk 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water CARR LANE EAST AYTON/CSO River Derwent 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water CRESCENT TERRACE/CSO River Esk 0 0h 3,710 h
Yorkshire Water COMMONDALE/STW Commondale Beck 0 0h 127 h
Yorkshire Water NORTH TERRACE/CSO North Sea 0 0h 6,927 h
Yorkshire Water EAST CRESCENT/CSO River Esk Tidal 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water BIRCH AVENUE/CSO Iburndale Beck 0 0h 7,149 h
Yorkshire Water SLIPWAY/CSO North Sea 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.