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Scarborough and Whitby - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 10,947 hours in 2025 - That's 1.27 years , monitoring offline 12,019 hours , potential overflows 638 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Scarborough and Whitby for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,579 hours , 78 potential
Feb - 99 hours , 407 offline
Mar - 2 hours , 1,488 offline
Apr - 27 hours , 10 potential
May - 80 hours , 135 potential
Jun - 46 hours , 82 potential
Jul - 140 hours , 1,145 offline
Aug - 20 hours , 108 potential
Sept - 819 hours , 136 potential
Oct - 403 hours , 1,265 offline
Nov - 4,654 hours , 1,527 offline
Dec - 3,071 hours , 62 potential
Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.
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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 83 1,530h 58m 78 h
Yorkshire Water GOATHLAND/NO 3 STW Murk Esk 69 779h 4m -
Yorkshire Water HILLCREST AV TANK/CSO Scalby Beck - North Sea 51 718h 58m -
Yorkshire Water BOTTON/STW Danby Beck 54 641h 18m 14 h
Yorkshire Water DUNSLOW ROAD/CSO River Hertford Via Ditch 86 594h 38m -
Yorkshire Water RUNSWICK BECK/CSO Culverted Runwick Beck 40 550h 38m -
Yorkshire Water GLAISDALE/STW River Esk 61 456h 17m -
Yorkshire Water CURLEW DRIVE/CSO Black Dike 20 409h 10m -
Yorkshire Water ROYAL HOTEL/CSO River Esk 21 377h 48m 886 h
Yorkshire Water COW WATH BECK/CSO North Sea 33 374h 38m -
Yorkshire Water LEBBERSTON TANK/CSO River Hertford 30 284h 13m -
Yorkshire Water SCARBOROUGH/STW/STORM TREATMENT North Sea 36 282h 44m -
Yorkshire Water MICKLEBY/STW Mickelby Beck 46 280h 31m -
Yorkshire Water RUSWARP/CSO River Esk 54 270h 16m -
Yorkshire Water LOWER UNDER HILL/CSO River Esk 17 235h 56m 213 h
Yorkshire Water WHITBY ROAD BDG/CSO North Sea 36 235h 43m -
Yorkshire Water NEWBY BRIDGE TANK/CSO Scalby Beck - North Sea 18 208h 11m -
Yorkshire Water HAWSKER/NO 2 CSO Stainsacre Beck 24 197h 12m 145 h
Yorkshire Water GOATHLAND GRNWAY/CSO Eller Beck 24 179h 40m -
Yorkshire Water RUSWARP CARRS/SPS Ditch 16 159h 56m -
Yorkshire Water EGTON BRIDGE/STW River Esk 35 139h 38m -
Yorkshire Water CARRHOUSE LN CAYTON/2 CSO River Hertford 26 132h 14m -
Yorkshire Water GROSMONT/STW River Esk 22 131h 12m -
Yorkshire Water SLEIGHTS/CSO River Esk 31 127h 10m -
Yorkshire Water PLAXTONS FACTORY/NO 2 CSO Culverted River Hertford 31 115h 39m -
Yorkshire Water CAYTON BAY/CSO North Sea 8 100h 18m -
Yorkshire Water SCALBY MILLS/CSO North Sea 42 95h 51m -
Yorkshire Water RAVENSCAR/STW Land 30 95h 50m -
Yorkshire Water DANBY/STW River Esk 31 92h 27m -
Yorkshire Water WHEATCROFT/CSO North Sea 11 85h 15m -
Yorkshire Water ROBIN HOODS BAY LWR/CSO North Sea 13 77h 51m -
Yorkshire Water LEALHOLM/STW River Esk 35 77h 17m -
Yorkshire Water ENDEAVOUR WHARF/CSO North Sea And River Esk 25 67h 54m -
Yorkshire Water NESFIELD CLOSE/CSO Unnamed Drain River Hertford 18 67h 39m -
Yorkshire Water BRIDGE INN/CSO River Esk 27 66h 14m -
Yorkshire Water LYTHE BANK/CSO North Sea 8 65h 6m -
Yorkshire Water LOWDALE LANE/NO 2 CSO Iburndale Beck 22 60h 52m -
Yorkshire Water BURNISTON GARDENS/2 CSO Burniston Beck 22 60h 46m -
Yorkshire Water GROSMONT/STW River Esk 25 55h 21m -
Yorkshire Water GRISTHORPE TANK/CSO River Hertford 8 54h 34m -
Yorkshire Water CASTLETON/SPS Danby Beck 15 49h 43m -
Yorkshire Water ENDEAVOUR WHARF/CSO North Sea And River Esk 17 45h 52m -
Yorkshire Water LEALHOLM SCHOOL/CSO River Esk 10 45h 9m 31 h
Yorkshire Water COMMONDALE/STW Commondale Beck 15 37h 33m -
Yorkshire Water PORRET LANE/NO 2 CSO Dales Beck 10 28h 12m -
Yorkshire Water SANDSEND ROAD/CSO Upgang Beck 6 23h 30m 1,619 h
Yorkshire Water FAIRFIELD WAY/CSO Spital Beck 12 18h 52m -
Yorkshire Water ESPLANADE WHITBY/CSO River Esk 14 18h -
Yorkshire Water FOULBRIDGE LANE/CSO Welldale Beck 4 15h 20m -
Yorkshire Water SEAMER/STW Seamer Drain 9 15h 3m -
Yorkshire Water BOULBY BANK/CSO River Esk Tidal 5 14h 13m 73 h
Yorkshire Water FOOTBRIDGE WST AYTON/CSO River Derwent 14 13h 20m -
Yorkshire Water BROOK PARK/NO 2 CSO River Esk 6 12h 36m -
Yorkshire Water WHITBY GOLF COURSE/CSO Upgang Beck 9 11h 35m -
Yorkshire Water TOLL HOUSE/SPS North Sea 9 10h 30m 8 h
Yorkshire Water GLYNNDALE DRIVE/CSO Sea Cut 6 10h 23m -
Yorkshire Water UPGANG LANE/NO 2 CSO Upgang Beck 4 9h 19m -
Yorkshire Water HOLBECK HILL/CSO Holbeck Ravine 16 7h 19m -
Yorkshire Water ASH GROVE CASTLETON/CSO Danby Beck 11 7h 17m -
Yorkshire Water CORNER CAFE/NO 2 CSO North Sea 6 6h 41m -
Yorkshire Water CARR LANE EAST AYTON/CSO River Derwent 4 3h 57m -
Yorkshire Water STAINSACRE/CSO Intake Beck 2 3h 20m -
Yorkshire Water BURNT HOWE RAVENSCAR/CSO Groundwater 2 1h 50m -
Yorkshire Water IVY HOUSE/CSO River Esk 1 0h 29m -
Yorkshire Water AQUARIUM TOP/CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water AISLABY/CSO Ditch 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water NEW ROAD BRIDGE/CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water RUNSWICK BAY LOWER/CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water CLEVELAND AVENUE/CSO To Foul Sewer 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water MALLYAN SPOUT/CSO West Beck 0 0h 855 h
Yorkshire Water WHITBY PIER ROAD/CSO River Esk 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water WESLEY SQR STAITHES/CSO Staithes Beck 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water THE ORCHARDS/NO 2 CSO West Beck / Murk Esk 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water CRESCENT TERRACE/CSO River Esk 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water NORTH TERRACE/CSO North Sea 0 0h 2,009 h
Yorkshire Water MAYFIELD ROAD/NO 2 CSO Bagdale Beck 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water EAST CRESCENT/CSO River Esk Tidal 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water BIRCH AVENUE/CSO Iburndale Beck 0 0h 4,936 h
Yorkshire Water SLIPWAY/CSO North Sea 0 0h 1,783 h

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.

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