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Sheffield South East

Polluted by sewage 827 times in 2025 lasting 2,874 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Sheffield South East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,210 hours of sewage overflows, from 64 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Sheffield South East in 2025

36 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
827 sewage dumps
2,874 hours duration
That's 3.99 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sheffield South East 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 1 of the total 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Don BLACKBURN MEADOWS STW 83 1,192 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook CATCLIFFE ROAD CSO 32 331 100
Yorkshire Water Don TINSLEY CSO 96 190 86
Yorkshire Water Shirtcliff Brook GLENHOLME ROAD CSO 41 185 100
Yorkshire Water River Don BROMPTON ROAD CSO 59 146 99.9
Yorkshire Water Shirtcliff Brook BRAMLEY PARK CLOSE CSO 37 105 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook RAINBOW AVENUE SPS 8 79 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook PRINCE OF WALES PUBLIC SEWER 44 76 100
Yorkshire Water Short Brook THE MILL NO 2 CSO 31 72 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook ALPORT ROAD CSO 35 62 95.6
Yorkshire Water Kirkbridge Dike DARNALL ROAD CSO 20 60 42.5
Yorkshire Water River Don BACON LANE CSO 34 53 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook SEAGRAVE CRESCENT 2 CSO 27 52 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook POOLE ROAD EAST/2 CSO 32 50 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook DYKE VALE ROAD 1 CSO 27 46 92.8
Yorkshire Water Car Brook HANDSWORTH ROAD NO 2 CSO 30 32 98.3
Yorkshire Water Orgreave Common Drain RETFORD ROAD ORRGREAVE NO 2 CSO 26 24 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook GREENLAND ROAD CSO 21 23 99.8
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook CARR FORGE ROAD CSO 23 20 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother TULIP TREE CLOSE CSO 10 13 62.4
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook HASTILAR ROAD SOUTH CSO 15 10 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook NORMANTON SPRING CSO 10 8 93.9
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook BEIGHTON STW 11 7 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother GREENGATES LANE CSO 8 6 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook In Culvert DYKE VALE ROAD CSO 7 4 99.1
Yorkshire Water Car Brook GREENLAND WAY CSO 8 4 86.3
Yorkshire Water Shirtcliff Brook BRUNSWICK PRIMARY SCHOOL CSO 7 2 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook PRINCE OF WALES ROAD 2 CSO 8 2 100
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook BIRLEY VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 20 2 100
Yorkshire Water Shirtcliff Brook HORSEWOOD ROAD CSO 1 2 60
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Shire Brook SHEFFIELD ROAD WOODHOUSE NO 2 CSO 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook BOWDEN HOWSTEAD NO 2 CSO 5 1 75
Yorkshire Water Shire Brook DELVES ROAD NO 2 CSO 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Handsworth Beck HIGHFIELD LANE ORGREAVE SPS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Shirtcliff Brook WOODHOUSE SEWER NETWORK - 3 CSOS 1 0 99.6
Yorkshire Water Kirk Bridge Dike ATTERCLIFFE HILL CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Ochre Dyke ARMSTEAD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Blackburn Brook ASLING ROAD CSO 0 0 94
Yorkshire Water River Don ATTERCLIFFE COMMON CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EFFINGHAM ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EFFINGHAM STREET CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don FURNIVAL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother JOHN CALVERT LANE CSO 0 0 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Don MEADOWHALL WAY NO.2 CSO 0 0 97.7
Yorkshire Water Ochre Beck QUEENS ROAD BEIGHTON CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don VULCAN 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.

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