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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Scarborough 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 | River Hertford Via Ditch | DUNSLOW ROAD SPS | 96 | 685 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | Scalby Beck - North Sea | HILLCREST AVENUE | 44 | 634 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | COW WATH BECK CSO | 33 | 434 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | WHITBY ROAD BRIDGE CSO | 44 | 249 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | Scalby Beck - North Sea | NEWBY BRIDGE STORM DETENTION TANK | 19 | 246 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | River Hertford | CARRHOUSE LANE CAYTON NO 2 CSO | 25 | 164 | 95.3 |
| Yorkshire Water | Culverted River Hertford | PLAXTONS FACTORY NO 2 CSO | 29 | 127 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | CAYTON BAY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 7 | 94 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | THE WHEATCROFT SHORT SEA OUTFALL | 11 | 87 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | Unnamed Drain River Hertford | NESFIELD CLOSE CSO | 13 | 69 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | TOLL HOUSE STORMWATER OUTFALL | 18 | 22 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | Sea Cut | GLYNNDALE DRIVE TANK SEWER | 5 | 11 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | Black Dike | CURLEW DRIVE CSO | 5 | 8 | 60.1 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | CORNER CAFE CSO | 6 | 7 | 100 |
| Yorkshire Water | Holbeck Ravine | HOLBECK HILL CSO | 10 | 5 | 99.8 |
| Yorkshire Water | To Foul Sewer | CLEVELAND AVENUE SSO | 3 | 0 | 75.5 |
| Yorkshire Water | North Sea | AQUARIUM TOP STORMWATER OUTFALL | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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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