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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 1,530 h 58m 78 h
Yorkshire Water GOATHLAND/NO 3 STW Murk Esk 69 779 h 4m -
Yorkshire Water HILLCREST AV TANK/CSO Scalby Beck - North Sea 51 718 h 58m -
Yorkshire Water BOTTON/STW Danby Beck 54 641 h 18m 14 h
Yorkshire Water DUNSLOW ROAD/CSO River Hertford Via Ditch 86 594 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water RUNSWICK BECK/CSO Culverted Runwick Beck 40 550 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water GLAISDALE/STW River Esk 61 456 h 17m -
Yorkshire Water CURLEW DRIVE/CSO Black Dike 20 409 h 10m -
Yorkshire Water ROYAL HOTEL/CSO River Esk 21 377 h 48m 886 h
Yorkshire Water COW WATH BECK/CSO North Sea 33 374 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water LEBBERSTON TANK/CSO River Hertford 30 284 h 13m -
Yorkshire Water SCARBOROUGH/STW/STORM TREATMENT North Sea 36 282 h 44m -
Yorkshire Water MICKLEBY/STW Mickelby Beck 46 280 h 31m -
Yorkshire Water RUSWARP/CSO River Esk 54 270 h 16m -
Yorkshire Water LOWER UNDER HILL/CSO River Esk 17 235 h 56m 213 h
Yorkshire Water WHITBY ROAD BDG/CSO North Sea 36 235 h 43m -
Yorkshire Water NEWBY BRIDGE TANK/CSO Scalby Beck - North Sea 18 208 h 11m -
Yorkshire Water HAWSKER/NO 2 CSO Stainsacre Beck 24 197 h 12m 145 h
Yorkshire Water GOATHLAND GRNWAY/CSO Eller Beck 24 179 h 40m -
Yorkshire Water RUSWARP CARRS/SPS Ditch 16 159 h 56m -
Yorkshire Water EGTON BRIDGE/STW River Esk 35 139 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water CARRHOUSE LN CAYTON/2 CSO River Hertford 26 132 h 14m -
Yorkshire Water GROSMONT/STW River Esk 22 131 h 12m -
Yorkshire Water SLEIGHTS/CSO River Esk 31 127 h 10m -
Yorkshire Water PLAXTONS FACTORY/NO 2 CSO Culverted River Hertford 31 115 h 39m -
Yorkshire Water CAYTON BAY/CSO North Sea 8 100 h 18m -
Yorkshire Water SCALBY MILLS/CSO North Sea 42 95 h 51m -
Yorkshire Water RAVENSCAR/STW Land 30 95 h 50m -
Yorkshire Water DANBY/STW River Esk 31 92 h 27m -
Yorkshire Water WHEATCROFT/CSO North Sea 11 85 h 15m -
Yorkshire Water ROBIN HOODS BAY LWR/CSO North Sea 13 77 h 51m -
Yorkshire Water LEALHOLM/STW River Esk 35 77 h 17m -
Yorkshire Water ENDEAVOUR WHARF/CSO North Sea And River Esk 25 67 h 54m -
Yorkshire Water NESFIELD CLOSE/CSO Unnamed Drain River Hertford 18 67 h 39m -
Yorkshire Water BRIDGE INN/CSO River Esk 27 66 h 14m -
Yorkshire Water LYTHE BANK/CSO North Sea 8 65 h 6m -
Yorkshire Water LOWDALE LANE/NO 2 CSO Iburndale Beck 22 60 h 52m -
Yorkshire Water BURNISTON GARDENS/2 CSO Burniston Beck 22 60 h 46m -
Yorkshire Water GROSMONT/STW River Esk 25 55 h 21m -
Yorkshire Water GRISTHORPE TANK/CSO River Hertford 8 54 h 34m -
Yorkshire Water CASTLETON/SPS Danby Beck 15 49 h 43m -
Yorkshire Water ENDEAVOUR WHARF/CSO North Sea And River Esk 17 45 h 52m -
Yorkshire Water LEALHOLM SCHOOL/CSO River Esk 10 45 h 9m 31 h
Yorkshire Water COMMONDALE/STW Commondale Beck 15 37 h 33m -
Yorkshire Water PORRET LANE/NO 2 CSO Dales Beck 10 28 h 12m -
Yorkshire Water SANDSEND ROAD/CSO Upgang Beck 6 23 h 30m 1,619 h
Yorkshire Water FAIRFIELD WAY/CSO Spital Beck 12 18 h 52m -
Yorkshire Water ESPLANADE WHITBY/CSO River Esk 14 18 h -
Yorkshire Water FOULBRIDGE LANE/CSO Welldale Beck 4 15 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water SEAMER/STW Seamer Drain 9 15 h 3m -
Yorkshire Water BOULBY BANK/CSO River Esk Tidal 5 14 h 13m 73 h
Yorkshire Water FOOTBRIDGE WST AYTON/CSO River Derwent 14 13 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water BROOK PARK/NO 2 CSO River Esk 6 12 h 36m -
Yorkshire Water WHITBY GOLF COURSE/CSO Upgang Beck 9 11 h 35m -
Yorkshire Water TOLL HOUSE/SPS North Sea 9 10 h 30m 8 h
Yorkshire Water GLYNNDALE DRIVE/CSO Sea Cut 6 10 h 23m -
Yorkshire Water UPGANG LANE/NO 2 CSO Upgang Beck 4 9 h 19m -
Yorkshire Water HOLBECK HILL/CSO Holbeck Ravine 16 7 h 19m -
Yorkshire Water ASH GROVE CASTLETON/CSO Danby Beck 11 7 h 17m -
Yorkshire Water CORNER CAFE/NO 2 CSO North Sea 6 6 h 41m -
Yorkshire Water CARR LANE EAST AYTON/CSO River Derwent 4 3 h 57m -
Yorkshire Water STAINSACRE/CSO Intake Beck 2 3 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water BURNT HOWE RAVENSCAR/CSO Groundwater 2 1 h 50m -
Yorkshire Water IVY HOUSE/CSO River Esk 1 0 h 29m -
Yorkshire Water AQUARIUM TOP/CSO North Sea 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water AISLABY/CSO Ditch 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water NEW ROAD BRIDGE/CSO North Sea 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water RUNSWICK BAY LOWER/CSO North Sea 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water CLEVELAND AVENUE/CSO To Foul Sewer 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water MALLYAN SPOUT/CSO West Beck 0 0 h 855 h
Yorkshire Water WHITBY PIER ROAD/CSO River Esk 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water WESLEY SQR STAITHES/CSO Staithes Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water THE ORCHARDS/NO 2 CSO West Beck / Murk Esk 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water CRESCENT TERRACE/CSO River Esk 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water NORTH TERRACE/CSO North Sea 0 0 h 2,009 h
Yorkshire Water MAYFIELD ROAD/NO 2 CSO Bagdale Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water EAST CRESCENT/CSO River Esk Tidal 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water BIRCH AVENUE/CSO Iburndale Beck 0 0 h 4,936 h
Yorkshire Water SLIPWAY/CSO North Sea 0 0 h 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

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.

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