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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

Polluted by sewage 603 times in 2025 lasting 1,823 hours

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Live data for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,016 hours of sewage overflows, from 30 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in 2025

28 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
603 sewage dumps
1,823 hours duration
That's 2.53 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Don HIGH BRIDGE HILLSBOROUGH CSO 80 508 99.8
Yorkshire Water Bagley Dyke OWLER LANE CSO 73 290 100
Yorkshire Water Todd Hole Dike/Mill Stream HERRIES ROAD CSO 71 263 100
Yorkshire Water Firth Park Stream VICKERS ROAD CSO 57 148 100
Yorkshire Water Sheffield Lane Dike DEERLANDS AVENUE 178 NO 2 CSO 41 121 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Dike NORWOOD ROAD NO2 CSO 42 114 93.8
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook DEEP LANE STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 21 66 99.9
Yorkshire Water Bagley Dike NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL CSO 19 51 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Loxley WISEWOOD ROAD CSO 26 40 94
Yorkshire Water Hartley Brook Dike SICEY AVENUE CSO 5 33 97.1
Yorkshire Water Bagley Dike LONGLEY HALL NO. 2 CSO 19 31 100
Yorkshire Water Hartley Brook Dike GODRIC ROAD CSO 16 30 97.3
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook BUTTERTHWAITE ROAD CSO 17 26 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook FIFE STREET CSO 4 19 53.8
Yorkshire Water Sheffield Lane Dike HARTLEY BROOK ROAD CSO 15 18 100
Yorkshire Water River Loxley HOLME LANE CSO 16 12 100
Yorkshire Water Firth Park Stream FAIRTHORN ROAD NO 2 CSO 13 12 98.9
Yorkshire Water River Don CARLISLE STREET ROUNDABOUT CSO 17 10 77.6
Yorkshire Water Firth Park Stream FIRTH PARK ROAD NO 2 CSO 12 5 82.6
Yorkshire Water River Loxley HOLME LANE SYPTE CSO 8 4 99.9
Yorkshire Water Duke Of Norfolk'S Culvert CARLISLE STREET 129 CSO 9 3 50
Yorkshire Water River Don CARLISLE STREET ROUNDABOUT CSO 10 3 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Dyke DUNMOW ROAD CSO 1 2 99.7
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook NEWMAN DRIVE CSO 5 1 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Loxley RUDYARD ROAD CSO 3 0 99.7
Yorkshire Water Sheffield Lane Dike DEERLANDS AVENUE 177 CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Hartley Brook Dike HARTLEY BROOK AVENUE CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don PARKSIDE ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Clvrt River Don CATCHBAR LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Culv River Don CLAYWHEELS LANE CSO 0 0 93.3
Yorkshire Water River Don DUDLEY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don GILPIN STREET DVISA A22 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Dyke GODDARD HALL ROAD CSO 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. 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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