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Chesterfield

Polluted by sewage 1,093 times in 2025 lasting 5,048 hours

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

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Totals for Chesterfield in 2025

42 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

1,093 sewage dumps

5,048 hours duration

That's 7.01 months. On average 3 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chesterfield 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 2 of the total 50 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 Rother	OLD WHITTINGTON (CHESTERFIELD) STW	89	1,257	99.4
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	CROW LANE WORKS CSO	62	540	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	BOBBINMILL LANE CSO	57	338	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	AVENUE FARM CSO	66	329	100
Yorkshire Water	River Whitting	BRIMINGTON ROAD NORTH CSO	60	323	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	SSO AT OAKFIELD AVENUE	53	224	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	MAIN ROAD FARM CSO	43	185	100
Yorkshire Water	River Drone	UNSTONE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	27	185	100
Yorkshire Water	Spittal Brook	HASLAND BY-PASS CSO	51	180	99.3
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	POTTERY LANE EAST CSO	39	123	99.3
Yorkshire Water	Ridding Brook Clvrt Via Sws	LITTLEMOOR NEWBOLD CSO	43	109	100
Yorkshire Water	Holme Brook	SSO AT JUNCTION OF ASHGATE ROAD AND	45	103	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	HASLAND HORNS BRIDGE CSO	22	89	100
Yorkshire Water	Spital Brook	HEATHCOTE DRIVE CSO	14	85	75.3
Yorkshire Water	Calow Brook	CALOW OAKS FARM CSO	26	83	100
Yorkshire Water	Trough Beck	BRIMINGTON COMMON WESTWOOD LANE SPS	28	75	99.6
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	STORFORTH LANE CSO	25	71	98.8
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	CHATSWORTH ROAD N471 CSO	30	67	92.6
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	ST AUGUSTINES AVENUE CSO	22	62	100
Yorkshire Water	Holme Brook / River Hipper	WEST BARS ROUNDABOUT CSO	26	62	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	BULLS HEAD CSO	25	61	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Tinker Sick	HILL VIEW ROAD NO 2 CSO	20	58	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	CLAYTON STREET SOUTH CSO	5	58	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	DOCK WALK CSO	13	49	98
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	DERBY ROAD GARAGE CSO	10	48	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	DERBY ROAD NORTH CSO	10	43	92.9
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	HAWTHORNE STREET SPS	5	41	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	HIPPER HALL CSO	20	39	97.4
Yorkshire Water	Spital Brook Culverted	VALLEY CRESCENT CSO	30	32	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	ST AUGUSTINES DRIVE CSO	19	23	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	CHATSWORTH ROAD CSO	17	23	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	STATION ROAD BRIMINGTON CSO	11	22	100
Yorkshire Water	Holme Brook	CUTTHORPE ROAD CSO	15	18	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	POTTERY LANE WEST CSO	15	8	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	CHESTERFIELD SPITAL LANE SW PMPG ST	14	6	99.3
Yorkshire Water	River Rother Via Sws	DERBY ROAD 242 CSO	13	5	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	LINCOLN STREET CSO	7	4	82.9
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	CHURCH VIEW CSO	7	3	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Holme Brook	SPRING BANK ROAD CSO	4	1	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	BRIMMINGTON ROAD CSO	2	0	99.4
Yorkshire Water	River Whitting	NORTH BRIMINGTON WORKS CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Drone	HARDHURST ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	BRIMINGTON ROAD CSO	0	0	1.7
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	HIPPER STREET SOUTH CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Hipper	OLD ROAD CHESTERFIELD CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	OLD WHIT HIGH STREET CSO	0	0	97.8
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	SHEFFIELD ROAD FIRE STATION CSO	0	0	99.7
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	ALBERT ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Drone	SISCAR COTTAGE CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	WEST HANDLEY CSO	0	0	1.3

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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