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York Central - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,372 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 12,701 hours , potential overflows 198 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in York Central so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 2,498 hours , 115 potential
Feb - 3,483 hours , 83 potential
Mar - 390 hours , 3,346 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Yorkshire Water MARYGATE LANDING/CSO River Ouse 51 987 h 49m -
Yorkshire Water FISHERGATE/CSO Tang Hall Beck 45 784 h 15m -
Yorkshire Water LENDAL HILL/CSO River Ouse 40 699 h 11m -
Yorkshire Water FULFORD/NO 2 SPS River Ouse 47 656 h 18m 0 h
Yorkshire Water THE ESPLANADE YORK/CSO River Ouse 52 645 h 40m -
Yorkshire Water SKELDERGATE/CSO River Ouse 40 469 h 27m -
Yorkshire Water TERRY AVENUE/CSO River Ouse 46 402 h 31m -
Yorkshire Water BUTCHER TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 26 292 h 31m -
Yorkshire Water SKELDERGATE BRIDGE/CSO River Ouse 32 226 h 18m -
Yorkshire Water MARYGATE LANE/CSO River Ouse 16 181 h 13m -
Yorkshire Water JUBILEE TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 15 176 h 26m -
Yorkshire Water NEW WALK/CSO River Ouse 17 149 h 50m -
Yorkshire Water NAVIGATION ROAD/CSO Tang Hall Beck 23 134 h 50m 1 h
Yorkshire Water PLANTATION DRIVE/CSO Ing Cliffs Drain 27 133 h 25m 195 h
Yorkshire Water TRAFALGAR STREET/CSO River Ouse 23 122 h 25m -
Yorkshire Water WOOLWORTHS/CSO River Ouse 4 85 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water YORK LANDING LANE/CSO River Ouse 4 52 h 43m 494 h
Yorkshire Water QUEENS STAITH/CSO River Ouse 17 38 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water POPPLETON RD SOUTH/2 CSO Holgate Beck 11 26 h 5m 1 h
Yorkshire Water HOLGATE ROAD/NO 2 CSO Holgate Beck 7 24 h 49m 1 h
Yorkshire Water RAWDON AVENUE/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 4 17 h 10m -
Yorkshire Water PORTLAND STREET/CSO River Ouse 8 15 h 27m -
Yorkshire Water FOSS ISLANDS ROAD/CSO Tang Hall Beck 4 14 h 8m -
Yorkshire Water HEWORTH GREEN/NO 2 CSO River Foss 3 12 h 29m -
Yorkshire Water KNAVESMIRE ROAD/CSO River Ouse 3 5 h 5m -
Yorkshire Water POPPLETON ROAD NORTH/CSO Culverted Holgate Beck 6 4 h 45m -
Yorkshire Water KNAVESMIRE/CSO Culverted Knavesmire Beck 2 4 h 16m -
Yorkshire Water FISHERGATE 20/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 2 2 h 44m -
Yorkshire Water HUNTINGTON ROAD/CSO River Foss 1 2 h 6m -
Yorkshire Water FOSS BANK/CSO River Foss 1 1 h 47m -
Yorkshire Water WALMGATE/CSO Tang Hall Beck 1 1 h 24m -
Yorkshire Water BOOTHAM HOSPITAL/CSO River Ouse 1 0 h 33m -
Yorkshire Water QUEEN STREET BRIDGE/CSO River Ouse 2 0 h 28m -
Yorkshire Water ACOMB/CSO Not Matched In Ea Consents Database 1 0 h 14m -
Yorkshire Water LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE/CSO River Foss 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water PICCADILLY/CSO River Foss 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water ROYAL YORK HOTEL/NO 1 CSO River Ouse 0 0 h 1,277 h
Yorkshire Water FARNDALE STREET/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water WIGGINGTON ROAD/CSO River Foss 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water HAXBY ROAD/CSO Culverted River Foss 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water DANESFORT AVENUE/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water YORK STATION ROAD/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h 1,277 h
Yorkshire Water HULL ROAD YORK/CSO Osbaldwick Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water PEASHOLME GREEN/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water HAMILTON DRIVE WEST/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water ROYAL YORK HOTEL/NO 2 CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water SEVERUS STREET/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water MARBLE ARCH/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h 1,277 h
Yorkshire Water HAMILTON DRIVE YORK/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0 h 1,799 h
Yorkshire Water ASHVILLE STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h 1,799 h
Yorkshire Water HARTOFT STREET/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water GROSVENOR TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water BEECH AVENUE/CSO Holgate Beck Via Public Sewer 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water MILNER STREET/CSO Culverted Holgate Beck 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water OAKVILLE STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h 1,174 h
Yorkshire Water LOWTHER STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water COMMON HALL LANE/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h 1,799 h
Yorkshire Water CASTLE MILLS/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water KITCHENER STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h 1,799 h

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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