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York Central - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 10,995 hours in 2025 - That's 1.27 years , monitoring offline 24,756 hours , potential overflows 474 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in York Central for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 1,727 hours
Feb - 239 hours , 110 offline
Mar - 9 hours , 310 offline
Apr - 6 hours
May - 59 hours , 170 potential
Jun - 21 hours , 189 potential
Jul - 175 hours , 4,464 offline
Aug - 18 hours , 3,632 offline
Sept - 1,071 hours , 2,880 offline
Oct - 499 hours , 115 potential
Nov - 2,583 hours , 2,608 offline
Dec - 4,584 hours , 2,994 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 89 1,320 h 26m -
Yorkshire Water THE ESPLANADE YORK/CSO River Ouse 91 1,292 h 43m -
Yorkshire Water FULFORD/NO 2 SPS River Ouse 74 1,034 h 13m -
Yorkshire Water LENDAL HILL/CSO River Ouse 80 975 h 2m -
Yorkshire Water FISHERGATE/CSO Tang Hall Beck 67 877 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water WOOLWORTHS/CSO River Ouse 56 830 h 13m 206 h
Yorkshire Water SKELDERGATE/CSO River Ouse 69 789 h 23m -
Yorkshire Water TERRY AVENUE/CSO River Ouse 54 600 h 1m -
Yorkshire Water BUTCHER TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 56 558 h 34m -
Yorkshire Water NEW WALK/CSO River Ouse 46 348 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water QUEENS STAITH/CSO River Ouse 51 293 h 339 h
Yorkshire Water TRAFALGAR STREET/CSO River Ouse 71 241 h 35m -
Yorkshire Water NAVIGATION ROAD/CSO Tang Hall Beck 57 239 h 39m -
Yorkshire Water FISHERGATE 20/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 27 226 h 58m -
Yorkshire Water SKELDERGATE BRIDGE/CSO River Ouse 45 199 h 17m -
Yorkshire Water PLANTATION DRIVE/CSO Ing Cliffs Drain 59 139 h 58m -
Yorkshire Water FOSS ISLANDS ROAD/CSO Tang Hall Beck 34 131 h 24m -
Yorkshire Water HEWORTH GREEN/NO 2 CSO River Foss 28 112 h 22m -
Yorkshire Water HOLGATE ROAD/NO 2 CSO Holgate Beck 34 95 h 37m -
Yorkshire Water POPPLETON RD SOUTH/2 CSO Holgate Beck 35 95 h 2m -
Yorkshire Water JUBILEE TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 11 86 h 4m -
Yorkshire Water RAWDON AVENUE/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 19 58 h 2m 2,354 h
Yorkshire Water POPPLETON ROAD NORTH/CSO Culverted Holgate Beck 31 45 h 54m -
Yorkshire Water PICCADILLY/CSO River Foss 13 43 h 57m 1,544 h
Yorkshire Water PORTLAND STREET/CSO River Ouse 15 41 h 29m 2 h
Yorkshire Water FOSS BANK/CSO River Foss 14 38 h 30m -
Yorkshire Water WIGGINGTON ROAD/CSO River Foss 11 38 h 3m -
Yorkshire Water WALMGATE/CSO Tang Hall Beck 20 34 h 33m -
Yorkshire Water HUNTINGTON ROAD/CSO River Foss 19 32 h 12m -
Yorkshire Water LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE/CSO River Foss 7 21 h 58m -
Yorkshire Water KNAVESMIRE/CSO Culverted Knavesmire Beck 5 20 h 3m -
Yorkshire Water QUEEN STREET BRIDGE/CSO River Ouse 17 19 h 14m -
Yorkshire Water BOOTHAM HOSPITAL/CSO River Ouse 10 18 h 33m -
Yorkshire Water YORK LANDING LANE/CSO River Ouse 5 17 h 6m -
Yorkshire Water LOWTHER STREET/CSO River Foss 11 12 h 50m -
Yorkshire Water KNAVESMIRE ROAD/CSO River Ouse 3 12 h 28m -
Yorkshire Water DANESFORT AVENUE/CSO Holgate Beck 3 11 h 49m -
Yorkshire Water HAMILTON DRIVE WEST/CSO Holgate Beck 13 10 h 23m -
Yorkshire Water GROSVENOR TERRACE/CSO River Ouse 6 5 h 44m -
Yorkshire Water CASTLE MILLS/CSO River Ouse 3 4 h 14m -
Yorkshire Water MILNER STREET/CSO Culverted Holgate Beck 8 3 h 53m -
Yorkshire Water HARTOFT STREET/CSO River Ouse 8 3 h 27m -
Yorkshire Water ACOMB/CSO Not Matched In Ea Consents Database 9 3 h 6m -
Yorkshire Water BEECH AVENUE/CSO Holgate Beck Via Public Sewer 5 2 h 37m -
Yorkshire Water HAXBY ROAD/CSO Culverted River Foss 3 2 h 20m -
Yorkshire Water HULL ROAD YORK/CSO Osbaldwick Beck 4 2 h 11m -
Yorkshire Water SEVERUS STREET/CSO Holgate Beck 6 2 h 9m -
Yorkshire Water ROYAL YORK HOTEL/NO 2 CSO River Ouse 1 0 h 44m -
Yorkshire Water PEASHOLME GREEN/CSO Tbc When Permit Issued 1 0 h 21m -
Yorkshire Water MARYGATE LANE/CSO River Ouse 1 0 h 5m 5,443 h
Yorkshire Water FARNDALE STREET/CSO River Ouse 1 0 h 2m -
Yorkshire Water YORK STATION ROAD/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water ASHVILLE STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h 5,410 h
Yorkshire Water COMMON HALL LANE/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h 328 h
Yorkshire Water OAKVILLE STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h 3,333 h
Yorkshire Water HAMILTON DRIVE YORK/CSO Holgate Beck 0 0 h 1,216 h
Yorkshire Water MARBLE ARCH/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water KITCHENER STREET/CSO River Foss 0 0 h 5,052 h
Yorkshire Water ROYAL YORK HOTEL/NO 1 CSO River Ouse 0 0 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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