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York Central was polluted by sewage 2,054 times in 2023
lasting 18,707 hours - that's 2.17 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for York Central in 2023
44 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
2,054 sewage dumps
18,707 h duration
That's 2.17 years! On average 5.6 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for York Central 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 2 of the total 55 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Ouse WOOLWORTHS CSO 204 3,649 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FULFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 132 2,143 100
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck FISHERGATE CSO 126 1,704 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BUTCHER TERRACE CSO 99 1,469 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 105 1,450 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LENDAL HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 114 1,356 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANDING CSO (NO2) 97 1,343 92.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse THE ESPLANADE YORK CSO 125 1,334 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TRAFALGAR STREET CSO 158 1,080 100
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck NAVIGATION ROAD CSO 88 574 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse KNAVESMIRE ROAD CSO 57 452 83
Yorkshire Water Culverted Knavesmire Beck KNAVESMIRE CSO 47 434 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANE CSO 49 418 99.3
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck FOSS ISLANDS ROAD CSO 64 348 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck HOLGATE ROAD NO.2 CSO 37 121 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEENS STAITH CSO 56 108 99.9
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck POPPLETON ROAD SOUTH 2 CSO 56 107 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE CSO 104 90 98.2
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CASTLE MILLS CSO 34 87 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse COMMON HALL LANE CSO 10 74 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss HEWORTH GREEN NO 2 CSO 16 57 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LANDING LANE CSO 23 41 99.7
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck HAMILTON DRIVE YORK CSO 6 39 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 23 39 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Holgate Beck POPPLETON ROAD NORTH CSO 37 28 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FARNDALE STREET CSO 12 27 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss FOSS BANK CSO 11 18 100
Yorkshire Water Tang Hall Beck WALMGATE CSO 17 17 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEEN STREET BRIDGE CSO 18 17 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss HUNTINGTON ROAD CSO 13 12 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck HAMILTON DRIVE WEST CSO 21 12 100
Yorkshire Water Ing Cliffs Drain PLANTATION DRIVE CSO 26 10 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BOOTHAM HOSPITAL CSO 10 9 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss LOWTHER STREET CSO 8 6 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck Via Public Sewer BEECH AVENUE CSO 6 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GROSVENOR TERRACE CSO 8 3 64.4
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck SEVERUS STREET SSO 5 2 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Foss WIGGINTON ROAD SSO 3 2 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Foss HAXBY RD CSO 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water Holgate Beck DANESFORT AVENUE CSO 1 1 100
Yorkshire Water Osbaldwick Beck HULL ROAD YORK CSO 3 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 21 0 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted Holgate Beck MILNER STREET CSO 1 0 89.4
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HARTOFT STREET CSO 1 0 64
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.1 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TERRY AVENUE CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Foss ASHVILLE STREET CSO 0 0 98.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Foss PICCADILLY CSO 0 0 54.6
Yorkshire Water River Foss OAKVILLE STREET CSO 0 0 57.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 0 0 2.6
Yorkshire Water River Foss KITCHENER STREET CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse PORTLAND STREET CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse NEW WALK CSO 0 0 0

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

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