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York Outer - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,223 hours in 2025 , potential overflows 1,162 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in York Outer 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 - 846 hours
Feb - 86 hours
Mar - 7 hours
Apr - 0 hours
May - 6 hours
Jun - 27 hours , 94 potential
Jul - 196 hours , 1 potential
Aug - 11 hours
Sept - 269 hours , 43 potential
Oct - 78 hours
Nov - 846 hours , 256 potential
Dec - 1,844 hours , 744 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Yorkshire Water KEXBY/STW River Derwent 101 1,125 h 6m 94 h
Yorkshire Water ELVINGTON BECK/CSO Elvington Beck 51 703 h 10m -
Yorkshire Water ASKHAM BRYAN/STW Foss Dike 68 634 h 57m -
Yorkshire Water NABURN YORK ROAD/CSO River Ouse 30 358 h 59m -
Yorkshire Water RIVERSIDE GARDENS/CSO River Ouse 57 259 h 35m -
Yorkshire Water RAWCLIFFE YORK/STW River Ouse/Rawcliffe Ings Dr 31 177 h 30m -
Yorkshire Water HAXBY STORM TANKS/STW River Foss 27 132 h 30m -
Yorkshire Water BRECKSFIELD/NO 2 CSO Burtree Dam 16 118 h 31m 1,068 h
Yorkshire Water COURTNEYS/CSO Ditch 21 103 h 29m -
Yorkshire Water EARSWICK WILLOW GROVE/CSO River Foss 23 93 h 43m -
Yorkshire Water MILL HILL/CSO River Foss 23 89 h 55m -
Yorkshire Water RUFFORTH/STW Smawith Dike 6 62 h 44m -
Yorkshire Water LOWER POPPLETON/CSO River Ouse 18 62 h 32m -
Yorkshire Water MILLFIELD LANE YORK/CSO River Ouse 24 59 h 9m -
Yorkshire Water SKELTON FAIRFIELD/CSO Unknown Beck 11 53 h 29m -
Yorkshire Water FULFORD MAIN STREET/CSO Germany Beck 32 41 h 28m -
Yorkshire Water MAYFIELD GROVE/CSO Holgate Beck 18 40 h 21m -
Yorkshire Water STRENSALL/CSO River Foss 24 25 h 58m -
Yorkshire Water HESLINGTON MAIN ST/CSO Germany Beck 8 25 h 25m -
Yorkshire Water SHIPTON ROAD/NO 2 CSO Blue Beck, Ouse 6 24 h 38m -
Yorkshire Water ASHLEY PARK CRESCENT/CSO Tang Hall Beck 5 15 h 32m -
Yorkshire Water HESSAY MAIN STREET/CSO New Dike 5 8 h 13m -
Yorkshire Water MEADOW FIELD/CSO River Foss 2 6 h 3m -
Yorkshire Water CLIFTON HOSPITAL/CSO River Ouse 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water COPMANTHORPE/CSO Town Ings Drain 0 0 h -
Yorkshire Water NORTH LANE/SPS Holgate Beck 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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