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Liversedge

Polluted by sewage 295 times in 2025 lasting 1,769 hours

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Totals for Liversedge in 2025

7 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
295 sewage dumps
1,769 hours duration
That's 2.46 months. 5.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Liversedge 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 Spen LISTING MILL FARM CSO 74 603 100
Yorkshire Water River Calder And River Spen SPENBOROUGH SPS STORM TANK SITE 77 563 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen ST PEG LANE CSO 39 209 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen HECKMONDWIKE NO 2 CSO 23 199 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen MORRISONS CAR PARK CSO 43 160 53.3
Yorkshire Water River Spen CHAPEL LANE NO 2 CSO 26 27 100
Yorkshire Water Syke Beck HIGHTOWN ROAD CSO 13 6 100
Yorkshire Water Unna. Cul. Of Spen River HECK CEMETERY ROAD NO 2 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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