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Elland

Polluted by sewage 617 times in 2025 lasting 3,149 hours

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Totals for Elland in 2025

22 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
617 sewage dumps
3,149 hours duration
That's 4.37 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Elland 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 Calder And Hebble Brook HALIFAX STW 201 1,459 100
Yorkshire Water Black Brook WEST VALE CSO 78 587 67.5
Yorkshire Water Canker Dyke WISTONS LANE/ELLAND LINK CSO 47 540 100
Yorkshire Water Canker Dyke HUDDERSFIELD ROAD CSO 77 179 99.8
Yorkshire Water Canker Dyke HUDDERSFIELD ROAD/SOUTH LANE CSO 47 91 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder ELLAND LOWFIELDS SPS 40 90 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder WEST VALE 21 58 99.95
Yorkshire Water Black Brook HOYLES MEMORIAL GARDENS CSO 27 41 76.4
Yorkshire Water River Calder LOWER EDGE ROAD CSO 11 27 100
Yorkshire Water Canker Dyke EASTGATE, ELLAND CSO 27 22 100
Yorkshire Water Holywell Brook STAINLAND ROAD CSO 5 11 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder COPLEY VILLAGE SPS 1 8 100
Yorkshire Water Black Brook BROW BRIDGE CSO 8 7 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder GAS WORKS LANE 1 6 93.9
Yorkshire Water River Calder ELLAND LANE CSO 2 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK ROAD CSO 1 5 100
Yorkshire Water Holywell Brook STAINLAND ROAD CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water Black Brook SUNNYBANK CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water Black Brook HOULTS LANE CSO 5 1 99.9
Yorkshire Water Calder And S EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 1 99.9
Yorkshire Water Black Brook SADDLEWORTH ROAD CSO 1 0 99.4
Yorkshire Water Black Brook ROCHDALE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.1
Yorkshire Water River Calder MILLGATE SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder PARK ROAD 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.

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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