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York Central

Polluted by sewage 2,950 times in 2025 lasting 13,779 hours - That's 1.59 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for York Central in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 6,781 hours of sewage overflows, from 59 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for York Central in 2025

49 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
2,950 sewage dumps
13,779 hours duration
That's 1.59 years. On average 8.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for York Central 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 3 of the total 55 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. Of these 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Ouse WOOLWORTHS CSO 102 1,681 94.5
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FULFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 94 1,678 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse THE ESPLANADE YORK CSO 100 1,461 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANDING CSO (NO2) 99 1,457 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LENDAL HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 89 1,125 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 82 987 100
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck FISHERGATE CSO 73 881 63.5
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BUTCHER TERRACE CSO 66 737 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TERRY AVENUE CSO 56 607 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse NEW WALK CSO 53 454 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEENS STAITH CSO 68 386 99.4
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck NAVIGATION ROAD CSO 71 357 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANE CSO 34 280 86.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 74 254 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TRAFALGAR STREET CSO 22 162 99.9
Yorkshire Water Ing Cliffs Drain PLANTATION DRIVE CSO 1,392 142 99.9
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck FOSS ISLANDS ROAD CSO 31 140 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss HEWORTH GREEN NO 2 CSO 26 120 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LANDING LANE CSO 13 108 94.9
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck POPPLETON ROAD SOUTH 2 CSO 38 103 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck HOLGATE ROAD NO.2 CSO 34 102 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 14 87 99.7
Yorkshire Water Culverted Knavesmire Beck KNAVESMIRE CSO 11 54 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Holgate Beck POPPLETON ROAD NORTH CSO 38 52 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse KNAVESMIRE ROAD CSO 12 51 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss HUNTINGTON ROAD CSO 20 42 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Foss FOSS BANK CSO 14 39 100
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck WALMGATE CSO 21 38 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss WIGGINTON ROAD SSO 9 22 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEEN STREET BRIDGE CSO 23 20 84.1
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BOOTHAM HOSPITAL CSO 13 20 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE CSO 15 20 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Foss LOWTHER STREET CSO 10 13 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse PORTLAND STREET CSO 15 12 99.5
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck DANESFORT AVENUE CSO 3 11 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck HAMILTON DRIVE WEST CSO 16 11 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HARTOFT STREET CSO 21 7 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Foss PICCADILLY CSO 10 7 93.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GROSVENOR TERRACE CSO 10 7 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Holgate Beck MILNER STREET CSO 13 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CASTLE MILLS CSO 10 5 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck Via Public Sewer BEECH AVENUE CSO 4 3 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck SEVERUS STREET SSO 7 3 99.9
Yorkshire Water Osbaldwick Beck HULL ROAD YORK CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Foss HAXBY RD CSO 3 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FARNDALE STREET CSO 12 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.2 CSO 1 1 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck HAMILTON DRIVE YORK CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss ASHVILLE STREET CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Ouse COMMON HALL LANE CSO 0 0 98.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss KITCHENER STREET CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Foss OAKVILLE STREET CSO 0 0 30.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.1 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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