Rotherham

Polluted by sewage 1,255 times in 2024 lasting 6,774 hours

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

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Totals for Rotherham in 2024

35 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

1,255 sewage dumps

6,774 hours duration

That's 9.41 months. On average 3.4 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Rotherham

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rotherham 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 40 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Don	ROTHERHAM ERSKINE ROAD SPS	133	1,985	84
Yorkshire Water	River Don	BLACKBURN MEADOWS STW	97	1,257	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	EASTWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO	97	521	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	LONG LANE STW	72	463	99.5
Yorkshire Water	River Don	ALDWARKE WWTW	43	425	96
Yorkshire Water	Dalton Brook	DALTON BROOK CSO	39	226	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	FITZWILLIAM CENTRE CSO	59	204	100
Yorkshire Water	Don	TINSLEY CSO	114	183	86.93
Yorkshire Water	River Don	WATER LANE ROTHERHAM CSO	32	183	96.7
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	BRINSWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	54	167	100
Yorkshire Water	Ochre Dyke	GREASBROUGH CSO	53	121	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	51	110	99.97
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Tail Goit	BRINSWORTH STREET SPS	19	110	99.3
Yorkshire Water	Roundwood Brook	RAWMARSH NO 2 CSO	16	91	100
Yorkshire Water	Herringthorpe Beck	VALLEY ROAD NORTH CSO	36	87	100
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	DEEP LANE STORM SEWER OVERFLOW	27	75	100
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Tail Goit	MASBROUGH STREET CSOO	35	66	98.2
Yorkshire Water	River Don	CLIFTON PARK CSO	31	60	100
Yorkshire Water	Whiston Brook Via Pub Swr	WORRY GOOSE LANE CSO AT SPS	22	56	100
Yorkshire Water	Don Via Surface Water Sewer	ROTHERHAM (EFFINGHAM SQUARE) SPS	7	52	71.9
Yorkshire Water	River Mas Culverted	UNION STREET CSO	33	47	100
Yorkshire Water	Oakley Bottom Dike	DROPPING WELL ROAD SPS	31	38	100
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Goit	JORDAN CSO	26	38	86.3
Yorkshire Water	Herringthorpe Beck	VALLEY ROAD SOUTH CSO	18	37	100
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	FIFE STREET CSO	17	31	100
Yorkshire Water	Herringthorpe Beck	CLIFTON LORD STREET CSO	22	28	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Parish Dyke	STADIUM WAY CSO	10	23	100
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	BUTTERTHWAITE ROAD CSO	17	22	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	RAWMARSH ROAD SPS	17	21	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Dalton Brook	DALTON LANE CSO	5	16	99.4
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	CANKLOW CSO	10	12	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	NEWMAN DRIVE CSO	9	5	96.1
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	THE MALTINGS CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Tail Goit	CLAREMONT STREET CSO	1	0	54.3
Yorkshire Water	River Don	MARSH STREET CSO/SPS	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Moss	BRADGATE LANE NO 2 CSO	0	0	95.7
Yorkshire Water	River Don	FOSTERS GARAGE SPS	0	0	11.9
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	WHITEHALL LANE CSO	0	0	99.3
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	ASLING ROAD CSO	0	0	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Don	VULCAN ROAD CSO	0	0	99.5

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.

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