Spen Valley was polluted by sewage 608 times in 2024
lasting 2,627 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Spen Valley in 2024
20 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
608 sewage dumps
2,627 h duration
That's 3.65 months. On average 1.7 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Spen Valley in 2024. 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 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Calder And River Spen SPENBOROUGH SPS STORM TANK SITE 95 813 100
Yorkshire Water River Colne BOG GREEN LANE 159 644 87.9
Yorkshire Water River Spen HECKMONDWIKE NO 2 CSO 28 242 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen MORRISONS CAR PARK CSO 59 228 84.5
Yorkshire Water River Spen ST PEG LANE CSO 37 214 100
Yorkshire Water Hunsworth Upper Lane Beck HUNSWORTH LANE NO 2 CSO 30 100 100
Yorkshire Water Nutter Beck BIRKENSHAW CSO 12 80 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Spen LISTING MILL FARM CSO 38 78 100
Yorkshire Water Hunsworth Beck NORTH BIERLEY CSO 28 71 100
Yorkshire Water Lodge Beck EAST BIERLEY CSO 30 59 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Spen River HIGH STREET HECKMONDWIKE NO 2 CSO 32 35 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen CHAPEL LANE NO 2 CSO 15 20 95.6
Yorkshire Water Wormalds Drain OLD LANE NO 2 CSO 11 12 99.9
Yorkshire Water Smithies Beck BIRSTALL CSO 8 9 100
Yorkshire Water High Royds Beck RAIKES LANE CSO 12 8 98.7
Yorkshire Water Syke Beck HIGHTOWN ROAD CSO 9 4 100
Yorkshire Water Helliwell Syke HELLIWELL SYKE CSO 2 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen BALME ROAD NO 2 CSO 1 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen BATLEY ROAD NO 2 CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen WHITEHALL ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Unna. Cul. Of Spen River HECK CEMETERY ROAD NO 2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Smithies Beck SMITHIES MOOR LANE, BIRSTALL CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Calder NEWGATE 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. 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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