Wakefield polluted by sewage 1,316 times in 2022 - lasting 5,815 hours

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Totals for Wakefield in 2022
37 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,316 sewage dumps
5,815 h duration
That's 8.08 months. On average 3.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wakefield in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Calder MITCHELL LAITHES WWTW 123 1,555 82.05
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDERVALE (WAKEFIELD) STW 122 829 99.2
Yorkshire Water Bretton Brook WEST BRETTON STW 132 762 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder ALBION MILLS CSO 71 461 100
Yorkshire Water Smithy Brook BRIDGE ROAD CSO 103 375 98.1
Yorkshire Water River Calder HORBURY (DUDFLEET) STW 105 324 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder HORBURY BRIDGE SPS 69 219 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder OSSETT SPA SPS AND STORM TANKS 25 202 99.55
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK HILL FARM CSO 72 201 99.5
Yorkshire Water Totty Beck WOOLLEY STW 87 120 99.8
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck BECTIVE MILLS CSO 64 115 100
Yorkshire Water Spring Mill Beck BAPTISTS LANE CSO 51 114 80.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO 28 90 100
Yorkshire Water Dennington Beck GREAT CLIFF PS & STORM TANK 31 84 50
Yorkshire Water Pildacre Mill Beck PILDACRE LANE CSO 35 69 100
Yorkshire Water River Dearne HAIGH STW 31 65 100
Yorkshire Water Old Mill Stream CHARLES STREET NO 2 CSO 14 57 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet KIRKGATE CHANTRY BRIDGE CSO 17 47 100
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck LUPSET SPS 12 36 100
Yorkshire Water Smithy Brook EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 14 23 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder HEALEY ROAD OSSETT CSO 23 13 98.4
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW ROAD CSO 19 8 91.3
Yorkshire Water Pits Beck Culverted NETHERTON CSO 22 8 100
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke WATERTON ROAD CSO 10 6 96.6
Yorkshire Water Spring Mill Beck OSSETT TOWNGATE NO 2 CSO 10 6 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Calder SWALLOWS NEST CSO 2 5 68
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck DERWENT GROVE 8 4 93.3
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck HORBURY ROAD M1 CSO 3 2 81.7
Yorkshire Water Bretton Brook TOWN FARM 4 SSO 2 1 99.7
Yorkshire Water Clvrt Springfield Beck OSSETT WAKEFIELD ROAD 2 CSO 3 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder DENBY DALE ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Owler Beck/Newmillerdam NEWMILLERDAM CSO 1 0 91.7
Yorkshire Water Bretton Brook INNFOLD FARM 3 NO 2 CSO 2 0 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHINNEY MOOR PUB HOUSE CSO 1 0 98.4
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW LANE CSO 1 0 61.2
Yorkshire Water River Dearne TOWN FARM 4 CSO 1 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water Bushy Beck GAWTHORPE MAIN STREET CSO 1 0 69.9
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck NEW SCARBOROUGH CSO 0 0 62.5
Yorkshire Water River Calder MITCHELL LAITHES CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke THORNES ROAD JUNCTION CSO 0 0 75.8
Yorkshire Water River Calder PORTOBELLO ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTMOOR CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water Culverted Chald Beck CLAYTON HILL CSO 0 0 90.9
Yorkshire Water Chapelthorpe Bank Owler B CHAPELTHORPE CSO 0 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water Bretton Brook TOWN FARM 2 CSO 0 0 70.1

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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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