Top of the Poops | Place | Ossett| Polluted by Yorkshire Water

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Totals for Ossett in 2024

9 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

315 sewage dumps

1,419 hours duration

That's 1.97 months. 6.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Ossett

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ossett in 2024. 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 locality 1 of the total 11 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	MITCHELL LAITHES WWTW	75	505	89.75
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ALBION MILLS CSO	55	379	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	OSSETT SPA SPS AND STORM TANKS	25	189	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	HEALEY ROAD OSSETT CSO	66	189	100
Yorkshire Water	Pildacre Mill Beck	PILDACRE LANE CSO	35	82	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Spring Mill Beck	BAPTISTS LANE CSO	41	63	98.3
Yorkshire Water	Spring Mill Beck	OSSETT TOWNGATE NO 2 CSO	12	8	100
Yorkshire Water	Clvrt Springfield Beck	OSSETT WAKEFIELD ROAD 2 CSO	3	1	99.5
Yorkshire Water	Bushy Beck	GAWTHORPE MAIN STREET CSO	3	0	94.7
Yorkshire Water	Chickenley Beck	SYKE ING NO 2 CSO	0	0	96
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	SWALLOWS NEST CSO	0	0	12.9

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EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

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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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Ossett Polluted by sewage 315 times in 2024 lasting 1,419 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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