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Wakefield and Rothwell was polluted by sewage 966 times in 2023
lasting 5,659 hours

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Totals for Wakefield and Rothwell in 2023
24 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
966 sewage dumps
5,659 h duration
That's 7.86 months. On average 2.6 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wakefield and Rothwell 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 30 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 Calder CALDERVALE (WAKEFIELD) STW 182 1,758 99.95
Yorkshire Water River Aire LEMONROYD WWTW 150 1,612 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Calder SMALLEY BIGHT (STANLEY) STW 96 803 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK HILL FARM CSO 85 319 100
Yorkshire Water Lee Moor Beck STANLEY MOOR ROAD SPS 42 273 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTMOOR CSO 60 220 69.1
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck BECTIVE MILLS CSO 76 153 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO 43 147 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder ABERFORD ROAD CSO 45 66 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck CARR GATE BECK CSO 38 63 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet KIRKGATE CHANTRY BRIDGE CSO 21 50 97.3
Yorkshire Water River Aire GLENOIT MILL CSO 24 47 99.8
Yorkshire Water Balne Beck WRENTHORPE CSO 11 37 97.5
Yorkshire Water Oulton Beck FARRER LANE CSO 16 36 99.9
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW ROAD CSO 26 20 100
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke WATERTON ROAD CSO 14 16 99.9
Yorkshire Water Foster Ford Beck BRANDY CARR LANE NO 2 CSO 7 14 100
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck DERWENT GROVE 9 7 99.9
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck LUPSET SPS 5 5 100
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW LANE CSO 9 4 69.9
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck HORBURY ROAD M1 CSO 4 1 67.3
Yorkshire Water River Calder BOTTOM BOAT ROAD SSO 1 1 59.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHINNEY MOOR PUB HOUSE CSO 1 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Cut Beck WOODSIDE CSO 1 0 99.6
Yorkshire Water Culverted Chald Beck CLAYTON HILL CSO 0 0 73.1
Yorkshire Water River Aire ALMA VILLAS 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck NEW SCARBOROUGH CSO 0 0 90
Yorkshire Water Balne Beck WRENTHORPE LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck BRANDY CARR ROAD 252 CSO 0 0 99.3
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke THORNES ROAD JUNCTION CSO 0 0 88.2

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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