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Pudsey

Polluted by sewage 533 times in 2025 lasting 1,535 hours

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Totals for Pudsey in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
533 sewage dumps
1,535 hours duration
That's 2.13 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Pudsey 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 Farnley Beck HOUGH SIDE WORKS CSO 86 540 99.8
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck BAGLEY BECK RODLEY CSO 43 201 100
Yorkshire Water River Aire MOSS BRIDGE ROAD CSO 51 167 99.4
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck RODLEY BAGLEY LANE CSO 62 153 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck DAWSONS CORNER CSO 48 99 62.5
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck STANNINGLEY CSO 49 67 97
Yorkshire Water Cul Tyersal Beck DICK LNE CSO & NEW LNE SPS 19 63 99.9
Yorkshire Water Clvrtd Pudsey Beck LOWTOWN CSO 37 52 100
Yorkshire Water Tyersal Beck PUDSEY (SMALEWELL) CSO 18 44 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck Culverted BAGLEY LANE 39 CSO 30 39 100
Yorkshire Water Fagley Beck RAVENSCLIFFE AVENUE CSO 12 36 87.4
Yorkshire Water Pudesy Beck HOUGHSIDE ROAD CSO 22 26 100
Yorkshire Water Pudsey Beck KENT ROAD CSO 17 18 100
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck SPRING VALLEY NO2 CSO 16 13 99.3
Yorkshire Water Fagley Beck WOODHALL ROAD NO 2 CSO 18 9 100
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck FULNECK CSO 1 1 74.3
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck Culverted BROOM MILLS CSO 2 0 99.4
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Farsley Beck RICHARDSHAW LANE NO2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck SOUTH DRIVE NO 2 CSO 0 0 96.6
Yorkshire Water Farnley Beck SWINNOW VIEW CSO 0 0 93.1
Yorkshire Water Bagley Beck TOWN STREET RODLEY CSO 0 0 99.7

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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