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Bingley

Polluted by sewage 505 times in 2025 lasting 1,911 hours

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Totals for Bingley in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
505 sewage dumps
1,911 hours duration
That's 2.65 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bingley in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Aire DOWLEY GAP (BINGLEY) WWTW 78 510 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Aire MORTON CSO 94 378 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BRADFORD ROAD 51 234 90
Yorkshire Water Loadpit Beck GILSTEAD LANE 128 CSO 73 217 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BRANKSOME DRIVE CSO 56 206 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire PRIMROSE LANE CSO 52 162 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire BECKFOOT LANE CSO 23 72 100
Yorkshire Water Various OLD MAIN STREET CSO 3 46 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Aire CROSSFLATTS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 11 35 100
Yorkshire Water Little Beck Clvrtd Via Sws GILSTEAD LANE 130 2 CSO 8 15 100
Yorkshire Water Cottingley Beck MANOR DRIVE CSO 33 14 100
Yorkshire Water Cottingley Beck MAIN STREET NO 2 CSO 13 12 99.7
Yorkshire Water Loadpit Beck SALTAIRE ROAD NO 2 CSO 7 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire WAVERLEY AVENUE CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water Little Beck LANE END FARM CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire HEALEY LANE CSO 0 0 100

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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