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Wakefield and Rothwell

Polluted by sewage 786 times in 2025 lasting 4,271 hours

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Live data for Wakefield and Rothwell in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,201 hours of sewage overflows, from 33 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Wakefield and Rothwell in 2025

26 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
786 sewage dumps
4,271 hours duration
That's 5.93 months. On average 2.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wakefield and Rothwell 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 Aire LEMONROYD WWTW 137 1,712 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder CALDERVALE (WAKEFIELD) STW 85 727 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder SMALLEY BIGHT (STANLEY) STW 56 321 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder EASTMOOR CSO 59 198 99
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK HILL FARM CSO 55 188 96.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder ABERFORD ROAD CSO 46 188 100
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke WATERTON ROAD CSO 56 159 100
Yorkshire Water Lee Moor Beck STANLEY MOOR ROAD SPS 25 150 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO 30 122 100
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck LUPSET SPS 20 87 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet KIRKGATE CHANTRY BRIDGE CSO 23 82 97.7
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck BECTIVE MILLS CSO 37 68 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck CARR GATE BECK CSO 31 63 100
Yorkshire Water Balne Beck WRENTHORPE CSO 16 51 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder WHINNEY MOOR PUB HOUSE CSO 26 49 100
Yorkshire Water Oulton Beck FARRER LANE CSO 11 31 83.9
Yorkshire Water River Aire GLENOIT MILL CSO 14 22 95.5
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW ROAD CSO 15 14 98.9
Yorkshire Water Balne Beck WRENTHORPE LANE CSO 15 10 99.6
Yorkshire Water Gill Syke THORNES ROAD JUNCTION CSO 4 8 82.9
Yorkshire Water Foster Ford Beck BRANDY CARR LANE NO 2 CSO 8 7 94.1
Yorkshire Water Lupset Beck HORBURY ROAD M1 CSO 4 2 66.6
Yorkshire Water River Calder BOTTOM BOAT ROAD SSO 3 2 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Aire ALMA VILLAS 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck FLANSHAW LANE CSO 4 1 100
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck DERWENT GROVE 3 0 100
Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck BRANDY CARR ROAD 252 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Chald Beck CLAYTON HILL CSO 0 0 99.6
Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck NEW SCARBOROUGH CSO 0 0 85
Yorkshire Water Cut Beck WOODSIDE 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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