Selby was polluted by sewage 1,900 times in 2023
lasting 16,604 hours - that's 1.92 years!

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Totals for Selby in 2023
38 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,900 sewage dumps
16,604 h duration
That's 1.92 years! On average 5.2 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Selby in 2023. 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 43 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 River Ouse WISTOW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 328 5,106 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire CHAPEL HADDLESEY WWTW 131 1,783 100
Yorkshire Water Tidal Ouse KELFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 97 1,279 97.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BARLBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 103 1,253 100
Yorkshire Water Tidal Ouse KELFIELD STW 93 1,096 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire INGS LANE STORM TANKS 118 1,025 99.95
Yorkshire Water Sheffield Beck OWLWOOD (GARFORTH) STW 65 925 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CHURCH END SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 73 702 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WEST HADDLESEY STW 143 664 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SELBY SEWAGE TREAMENT WORKS 52 400 99.8
Yorkshire Water Upper Fox Drain SHERBURN IN ELMET STW 27 336 98.2
Yorkshire Water Ings And Tetherings Drain EGGBOROUGH WWTW 27 314 71.1
Yorkshire Water Blowell Drain CRIDLING STUBBS WWTW 34 270 99
Yorkshire Water Culverted Brayton Junction SHIPYARD ROAD 49 267 100
Yorkshire Water Lendall Carr Dyke BARLOW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 36 213 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BARLBY ROAD SPS 70 203 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HEMINGBROUGH WPC WORKS 37 112 100
Yorkshire Water Ouse HOLME LANE SPS 93 90 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD SSO 20 90 91.2
Yorkshire Water Garmancarr Dike GARMANCARR SSO 34 84 97.7
Yorkshire Water Sheep Dike MICKLEFIELD STW 13 76 99.3
Yorkshire Water Cherry Orchard YORK ROAD CSO 28 75 100
Yorkshire Water Hagg Bush Dike BURN AIRFIELD SPS 32 54 60.5
Yorkshire Water Womersley Beck STAPLETON PARK WWTW 22 37 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Aire CUT ROAD NO.2 CSO 39 32 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire ALLERTON BYWATER CSO 7 28 75.1
Yorkshire Water Hollins Beck KIPPAX STORM TANKS 6 13 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire STATION ROAD MICKLETOWN SPS 25 10 100
Yorkshire Water Sheep Dike GREAT NORTH ROAD NO2 CSO 9 10 69.9
Yorkshire Water River Went KIRK SMEATON STW 1 10 99.2
Yorkshire Water Old Course Of River Ouse HEMINGBROUGH WPC WORKS 4 10 100
Yorkshire Water Cawdel Head Drain SOUTH MILFORD SPS 11 4 99.7
Yorkshire Water Cemetary Drain FRYSTON COMMON LANE SPS 4 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire SPRING GARDENS SEWAGE PUMPING STA. 45 4 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Green Dike SHERBURN OLD WORKS CSO 7 4 100
Yorkshire Water Bishop Dike BISHOP DIKE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 13 1 100
Yorkshire Water Hollins Beck KIPPAX 80 CSO 2 1 48.7
Yorkshire Water Clough Dike CLOUGH DIKE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water Sheep Dike PIT LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Hollins Beck WESTFIELD LANE CSO 0 0 60.2
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck ASHLEY PARK SSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BROTHERTON CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Tidal Ouse ANSON GROVE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 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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