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Doncaster

Polluted by sewage 149 times in 2025 lasting 788 hours

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Totals for Doncaster in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water Yorkshire Water
149 sewage dumps
788 hours duration
That's 4.69 weeks. 2.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Doncaster 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 %
Severn Trent Water Warmsworth Beck WARMSWORTH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WKS 49 165 100
Yorkshire Water River Don SANDALL WWTW 15 149 99.9
Yorkshire Water Mother Drain BALBY STW (YWS) 15 110 99.95
Severn Trent Water River Torne BRANTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 15 105 97.2
Yorkshire Water Fowler Bridge Drain BENTLEY RISE PS & CSO 12 67 100
Yorkshire Water Lady Bank Drain SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION 10 59 100
Yorkshire Water Culverted River Cheswold DONCASTER INTERCHANGE CSO 10 44 100
Yorkshire Water An Unnamed Shef WHEATLY/NO 2 SPS 9 44 93.3
Severn Trent Water Rossington Drain ADJ TO BANKWOOD LANE PS - STORM OF 5 24 100
Yorkshire Water Swaidike ANCHROAGE LANE CSO 6 16 99.9
Severn Trent Water Warmsworth Beck WARMSWORTH - COMMON LANE CSO 2 1 99.1
Yorkshire Water River Don THORNE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water Drain Leading To River Don HARROWDEN CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don SMITHS SQUARE 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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