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Rotherham

Polluted by sewage 1,861 times in 2025 lasting 5,420 hours

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

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Totals for Rotherham in 2025

34 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

1,861 sewage dumps

5,420 hours duration

That's 7.53 months. On average 5.1 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rotherham 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 40 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 Don	ROTHERHAM ERSKINE ROAD SPS	107	1,507	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	BLACKBURN MEADOWS STW	83	1,192	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	EASTWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO	77	378	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	ALDWARKE WWTW	936	316	86.4
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	LONG LANE STW	22	219	94.5
Yorkshire Water	Don	TINSLEY CSO	96	190	86
Yorkshire Water	River Don	FITZWILLIAM CENTRE CSO	45	165	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	43	164	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	BRINSWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	49	128	100
Yorkshire Water	Ochre Dyke	GREASBROUGH CSO	47	114	100
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Tail Goit	BRINSWORTH STREET SPS	13	93	94.8
Yorkshire Water	Herringthorpe Beck	VALLEY ROAD NORTH CSO	33	92	100
Yorkshire Water	Roundwood Brook	RAWMARSH NO 2 CSO	12	91	100
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Tail Goit	MASBROUGH STREET CSOO	36	90	80.6
Yorkshire Water	Dalton Brook	DALTON BROOK CSO	16	78	100
Yorkshire Water	Don Via Surface Water Sewer	ROTHERHAM (EFFINGHAM SQUARE) SPS	11	72	88.8
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	DEEP LANE STORM SEWER OVERFLOW	21	66	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Whiston Brook Via Pub Swr	WORRY GOOSE LANE CSO AT SPS	21	64	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	CLIFTON PARK CSO	24	55	98.1
Yorkshire Water	Oakley Bottom Dike	DROPPING WELL ROAD SPS	27	48	100
Yorkshire Water	River Mas Culverted	UNION STREET CSO	29	40	100
Yorkshire Water	River Don	FOSTERS GARAGE SPS	10	40	100
Yorkshire Water	Parish Dyke	STADIUM WAY CSO	8	36	100
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	BUTTERTHWAITE ROAD CSO	17	26	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	WHITEHALL LANE CSO	7	25	99.3
Yorkshire Water	River Don	RAWMARSH ROAD SPS	11	25	100
Yorkshire Water	Herringthorpe Beck	VALLEY ROAD SOUTH CSO	15	23	100
Yorkshire Water	Herringthorpe Beck	CLIFTON LORD STREET CSO	15	19	100
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	FIFE STREET CSO	4	19	53.8
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	CANKLOW CSO	8	18	98.8
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Goit	JORDAN CSO	11	15	89.2
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	NEWMAN DRIVE CSO	5	1	99.3
Yorkshire Water	River Don	WATER LANE ROTHERHAM CSO	1	0	70.4
Yorkshire Water	Holmes Tail Goit	CLAREMONT STREET CSO	1	0	35.5
Yorkshire Water	River Moss	BRADGATE LANE NO 2 CSO	0	0	98.6
Yorkshire Water	Dalton Brook	DALTON LANE CSO	0	0	93.4
Yorkshire Water	River Don	MARSH STREET CSO/SPS	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Rother	THE MALTINGS CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Blackburn Brook	ASLING ROAD CSO	0	0	94
Yorkshire Water	River Don	VULCAN ROAD 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

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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