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Bradford

Polluted by sewage 2,215 times in 2025 lasting 6,855 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Bradford in 2025

79 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

2,215 sewage dumps

6,855 hours duration

That's 9.52 months. On average 6.1 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bradford 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 4 of the total 96 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	WOODLANDS CLOSE CSO	54	679	82.5
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	CANAL ROAD FRIZINGHALL CSO	100	617	100
Yorkshire Water	East Brook	BOWER GRN/CHESTNUT ST/MYRTLE ST/	164	370	87.3
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	HARROGATE ROAD 297 CSO	72	366	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Bottom Hall Beck	WYKE BECK CSO	72	356	100
Yorkshire Water	Wyke Beck	BAILIFF BRIDGE CSO	113	315	96.73
Yorkshire Water	Wyke Beck	RED LION A58 CSO	73	257	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	NORTH AVENUE CSO	25	239	100
Yorkshire Water	Pitty Beck	THORNTON ROAD 209 CSO	67	236	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	ESHOLT LANE CSO	46	207	97
Yorkshire Water	Westbrook	LONGSIDE LANE CSO	34	178	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	APPERLEY ROAD PUBLIC SEWER	66	167	99.27
Yorkshire Water	East Brook	HAMMERTON ST/LEEDS RD/HARRIS ST CSO	24	163	99
Yorkshire Water	Carr Beck	ROUNDWOOD GLEN NO 2 CSO	54	161	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Bull Greave Beck	LIDGET FM/LOWER LIDGET FM CSO'S	14	150	100
Yorkshire Water	Haigh Beck	STOCK HILL FOLD NO 2 CSO	46	141	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	LITTLE HORTON LANE CSO	70	131	100
Yorkshire Water	High Royds Beck	CARR HILL ROAD CSO	50	127	100
Yorkshire Water	Clayton Beck	GREEN END NO 2 CSO	13	124	99.6
Yorkshire Water	Low Moor Beck	VICTORIA PARK CSO	26	114	97
Yorkshire Water	Brackendale Beck	BUCK MILL LANE CSO	51	104	100
Yorkshire Water	Bull Greave Beck	THEARNE GREEN CSO	55	104	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	YORKSHIRE WATER FRIZLEY GARDENS BRA	36	96	100
Yorkshire Water	Clifton Beck	WYKE OLD LANE CSO	48	96	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	WOODLANDS DRIVE CSO	31	93	100
Yorkshire Water	Holme Beck	STIRLING CRESENT NO1 SPS	18	89	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	MIDLAND ROAD CSO	24	87	100
Yorkshire Water	Bull Greave Beck	PASTURE LANE NO 2 CSO	37	78	84.9
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	PRESTON STREET CSO	40	75	96.6
Yorkshire Water	Cul Tyersal Beck	DICK LNE CSO & NEW LNE SPS	19	63	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Lodge Beck	EAST BIERLEY CSO	28	61	100
Yorkshire Water	Bolton Beck	ASHBOURNE ROAD CSO	28	46	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	NORTH BROOK STREET NO 1 & 2 CSO'S	40	45	100
Yorkshire Water	Chellow Dean Beck	ALLERTON ROAD CSO	39	44	100
Yorkshire Water	Tyersal Beck	PUDSEY (SMALEWELL) CSO	18	44	100
Yorkshire Water	Hunsworth Beck	NORTH BIERLEY CSO	12	39	100
Yorkshire Water	Yeadon Gill	WARM LANE, YEADON CSO	18	37	100
Yorkshire Water	Fagley Beck	RAVENSCLIFFE AVENUE CSO	12	36	87.4
Yorkshire Water	Holme Beck	CUTLER HEIGHTS CSO	18	33	100
Yorkshire Water	Horton Beck West Brook Clvrtd	GREAT HORTON ROAD CSO	34	33	100
Yorkshire Water	Clvrt Bowling Beck	SPRINGMILL STREET 2 CSO	31	30	99
Yorkshire Water	East Brook	VICAR LANE 2 CSO	33	29	99.7
Yorkshire Water	High Royds Beck	SHETCLIFFE LANE CSO	21	27	91.2
Yorkshire Water	Carr Beck	BECK BOTTOM CSO	16	26	85
Yorkshire Water	Brow Lane Sewer	WOODFALL SHELF EAST CSO	22	25	98.3
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	MANCHESTER ROAD CSO	23	24	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Blackshaw Beck	EDGE END LANE CSO	16	23	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Hunsworth Upper Lane Beck	HUNSWORTH LANE NO 2 CSO	10	22	100
Yorkshire Water	East Brook	MOUNT STREET CSO	18	21	100
Yorkshire Water	East Brook	MULGRAVE STREET 259 CSO	13	18	44.4
Yorkshire Water	Horton Beck	FARNHAM ROAD CSO	17	15	100
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	GORDON STREET CSO	3	14	100
Yorkshire Water	Cottingley Beck	MAIN STREET NO 2 CSO	13	12	99.7
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	CROSS SUN STREET CSO	17	11	100
Yorkshire Water	Clayton Beck	BRADFORD ROAD 213 CSO	8	11	99
Yorkshire Water	Horton Beck	SPENCER ROAD CSO	21	11	100
Yorkshire Water	Clvrt Cliff Dike	WALDEN DRIVE NO 2 CSO	7	10	100
Yorkshire Water	Highroyds Beck	CLIFF HOLLINS LANE CSO	3	10	33.8
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	BRADFORD BECK 2 CSO	8	9	100
Yorkshire Water	Fagley Beck	WOODHALL ROAD NO 2 CSO	18	9	100
Yorkshire Water	Trap Sike	POWELL ROAD CSO	13	8	100
Yorkshire Water	Low Moor Beck	CLECKHEATON ROAD CSO	17	7	100
Yorkshire Water	Horton Beck	BRACKENHILL PARK CSO	4	6	100
Yorkshire Water	Carr Beck	HARROGATE ROAD 298 CSO	12	6	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	VALLEY ROAD SHIPLEY 2 CSO	13	6	100
Yorkshire Water	Holme Beck	HOLME LANE 313 CSO	9	5	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	CANAL ROAD 331 CSO	6	5	100
Yorkshire Water	Bolton Beck	QUEENS ROAD BRADFORD CSO	5	5	83.6
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	MORLEY STREET CSO	2	5	91.3
Yorkshire Water	Horton Beck	SHIRLEY ROAD CSO	6	4	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	DUNCOMBE STREET CSO	4	3	99.6
Yorkshire Water	High Royds Beck	RAIKES LANE CSO	2	2	93.8
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	CANAL ROAD 330 NO 2 CSO	5	2	100
Yorkshire Water	Trap Sike	RIDGEWAY CSO	3	1	100
Yorkshire Water	East Brook	HAMMERTON STREET 256 NO 2 CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	MILL LANE BRADFORD 2 CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	HALL INGS CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Gill Beck	OTLEY ROAD BAILDON CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	POPLAR ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	BIRCH LANE CSO	0	0	78.9
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	NELSON STREET CSO	0	0	1.8
Yorkshire Water	Eastbrook	NEW AUGUSTUS STREET CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	VALLEY ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Low Moor Beck	COMMON ROAD CSO	0	0	92.3
Yorkshire Water	High Royds Beck	NEW STREET CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Dean Beck	ROOLEY AVENUE CSO	0	0	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Low Moor Beck	SMITH AVENUE CSO	0	0	82.9
Yorkshire Water	Holme Beck	TYERSAL LANE CSO	0	0	88.8
Yorkshire Water	Low Moor Beck	UPPER PARK HOUSE CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Middle Brook	ARTHUR AVENUE CSO	0	0	3.6
Yorkshire Water	Pitty Beck	CHARTERIS ROAD CSO	0	0	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Horton Beck	ROSLYN PLACE CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Dirk Hill Beck	SHEARBRIDGE MILL NO. 2 CSO	0	0	99.5
Yorkshire Water	Clayton Beck	THORTON GRAMMAR CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Trap Sike	LIVINGSTONE ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	METAL BOX SPS	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.

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