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Ripon

Polluted by sewage 1,413 times in 2025 lasting 959 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Ripon in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,413 sewage dumps
959 hours duration
That's 1.33 months. On average 3.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ripon 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 1 of the total 17 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Ure RIPON WPC WORKS 1,162 457 100
Yorkshire Water Skell PARK STREET CSO 43 115 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ure CLOCK TOWER CSO 43 100 74.7
Yorkshire Water River Ure SHAROW SPS 22 78 100
Yorkshire Water Skittergate Gutter STONEBRIDGE GATE CSO 11 48 99.5
Yorkshire Water Skell CLOTHERHOLME ROAD CSO 29 46 100
Yorkshire Water River Ure CSO AT CLOCK TOWER/STONEBRIDGE/ 30 31 83.93
Yorkshire Water Skell BLOSSOMGATE CSO 11 30 69.4
Yorkshire Water Skittergate Gutter STONEBRIDGEGATE FIRE STATION CSO 15 20 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Skell Via A Public Sewer BORRAGE BRIDGE CSO 28 14 100
Yorkshire Water Skell KIRKBY ROAD CSO 8 9 88.9
Yorkshire Water River Skell Via Surface Wtr Sw MALLORIE PARK CSO 5 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Skell SKELL BRIDGE SPS 5 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Skell SOUTH CRESCENT CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Skell BONDGATE GREEN CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Skell HARROGATE ROAD CSO 0 0 95.3
Yorkshire Water River Skell WATER SKELLGATE CSO 0 0 45.8

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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