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

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.

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