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Brighouse

Polluted by sewage 842 times in 2025 lasting 2,746 hours

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

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Totals for Brighouse in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
842 sewage dumps
2,746 hours duration
That's 3.81 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Brighouse 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 1 of the total 17 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 Calder BONEGATE LN, ALEGER ST & THORNHILL 266 1,254 99.97
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 River Calder WOODHOUSE LANE CSO 77 160 100
Yorkshire Water Clifton Beck WYKE OLD LANE CSO 48 96 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder POLLARD STREET NO 2 CSO 29 83 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder BRAMSTON STREET CSO 34 61 65.2
Yorkshire Water Clifton Beck HOYLE HOUSE BRIDGE CSO 27 46 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder DARK LANE NO 2 CSO 32 39 92.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder RIVER STREET CSO 19 35 33
Yorkshire Water River Calder BIRDS ROYD LANE CSO 27 21 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder DYEHOUSE LANE CSO 19 6 100
Yorkshire Water Red Beck SHIBDEN PARK CSO 4 6 100
Yorkshire Water Lumb Brook Culverted LUMBROOK NO 2 CSO 2 5 98.7
Yorkshire Water River Calder LILLANDS LANE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder LORDS LANE BRIGHOUSE 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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