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York Central - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,963 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 37,723 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 - 673 hours , 5,488 offline
Apr - 34 hours , 4,692 offline
May - 91 hours , 4,464 offline
Jun - 0 hours , 4,320 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 4,464 offline
Aug - 180 hours , 4,434 offline
Sept - 1 hours , 616 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 66 1,091h 45m -
Yorkshire Water FISHERGATE/CSO Tang Hall Beck 56 823h 19m -
Yorkshire Water LENDAL HILL/CSO River Ouse 51 771h 24m -
Yorkshire Water THE ESPLANADE YORK/CSO River Ouse 63 703h 34m -
Yorkshire Water FULFORD/NO 2 SPS River Ouse 53 684h 57m 0 h
Yorkshire Water SKELDERGATE/CSO River Ouse 46 481h 12m -
Yorkshire Water TERRY AVENUE/CSO River Ouse 53 416h 51m -
Yorkshire Water BUTCHER TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 29 299h 3m -
Yorkshire Water SKELDERGATE BRIDGE/CSO River Ouse 45 262h 46m -
Yorkshire Water MARYGATE LANE/CSO River Ouse 18 183h 21m -
Yorkshire Water JUBILEE TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 15 176h 26m -
Yorkshire Water PLANTATION DRIVE/CSO Ing Cliffs Drain 53 166h 21m 195 h
Yorkshire Water NEW WALK/CSO River Ouse 20 152h 26m -
Yorkshire Water NAVIGATION ROAD/CSO Tang Hall Beck 27 142h 1 h
Yorkshire Water TRAFALGAR STREET/CSO River Ouse 37 134h 45m -
Yorkshire Water WOOLWORTHS/CSO River Ouse 7 89h 18m -
Yorkshire Water QUEENS STAITH/CSO River Ouse 28 78h 50m -
Yorkshire Water YORK LANDING LANE/CSO River Ouse 7 68h 33m 36 h
Yorkshire Water POPPLETON RD SOUTH/2 CSO Holgate Beck 16 35h 18m 1 h
Yorkshire Water HOLGATE ROAD/NO 2 CSO Holgate Beck 12 33h 10m 1 h
Yorkshire Water FOSS ISLANDS ROAD/CSO Tang Hall Beck 7 26h 47m -
Yorkshire Water RAWDON AVENUE/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 7 24h 37m -
Yorkshire Water HEWORTH GREEN/NO 2 CSO River Foss 6 24h -
Yorkshire Water ACOMB/CSO Not Matched In Ea Consents Database 8 16h 36m -
Yorkshire Water PORTLAND STREET/CSO River Ouse 8 15h 27m -
Yorkshire Water POPPLETON ROAD NORTH/CSO Culverted Holgate Beck 11 10h 18m -
Yorkshire Water HUNTINGTON ROAD/CSO River Foss 4 5h 54m -
Yorkshire Water KNAVESMIRE ROAD/CSO River Ouse 4 5h 25m -
Yorkshire Water FOSS BANK/CSO River Foss 3 4h 47m -
Yorkshire Water KNAVESMIRE/CSO Culverted Knavesmire Beck 2 4h 16m -
Yorkshire Water WALMGATE/CSO Tang Hall Beck 4 4h 12m -
Yorkshire Water GROSVENOR TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 3 4h 9m -
Yorkshire Water QUEEN STREET BRIDGE/CSO River Ouse 6 3h 55m -
Yorkshire Water FISHERGATE 20/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 3 3h 6m -
Yorkshire Water HAMILTON DRIVE WEST/CSO Holgate Beck 4 2h 22m -
Yorkshire Water MILNER STREET/CSO Culverted Holgate Beck 4 2h 13m -
Yorkshire Water LOWTHER STREET/CSO River Foss 1 1h 46m -
Yorkshire Water BOOTHAM HOSPITAL/CSO River Ouse 2 1h 25m -
Yorkshire Water WIGGINGTON ROAD/CSO River Foss 1 1h -
Yorkshire Water SEVERUS STREET/CSO Holgate Beck 3 0h 56m -
Yorkshire Water BEECH AVENUE/CSO Holgate Beck Via Public Sewer 1 0h 56m -
Yorkshire Water HAXBY ROAD/CSO Culverted River Foss 1 0h 42m -
Yorkshire Water LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE/CSO River Foss 1 0h 40m -
Yorkshire Water MARBLE ARCH/CSO River Ouse 1 0h 38m 2,011 h
Yorkshire Water OAKVILLE STREET/CSO River Foss 2 0h 34m 1,174 h
Yorkshire Water HARTOFT STREET/CSO River Ouse 1 0h 28m -
Yorkshire Water HULL ROAD YORK/CSO Osbaldwick Beck 1 0h 24m -
Yorkshire Water PEASHOLME GREEN/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 1 0h 14m -
Yorkshire Water YORK STATION ROAD/CSO River Ouse 0 0h 5,426 h
Yorkshire Water ASHVILLE STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0h 5,948 h
Yorkshire Water FARNDALE STREET/CSO River Ouse 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water COMMON HALL LANE/CSO River Ouse 0 0h 5,802 h
Yorkshire Water ROYAL YORK HOTEL/NO 2 CSO River Ouse 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water PICCADILLY/CSO River Foss 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water HAMILTON DRIVE YORK/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0h 5,948 h
Yorkshire Water DANESFORT AVENUE/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water CASTLE MILLS/CSO River Ouse 0 0h -
Yorkshire Water KITCHENER STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0h 5,948 h
Yorkshire Water ROYAL YORK HOTEL/NO 1 CSO River Ouse 0 0h 5,426 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.