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Totals for Scholes (near Holmfirth) in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

128 sewage dumps

347 hours duration

That's 2.07 weeks. 2.5 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Scholes (near Holmfirth) 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	New Mill Dike	HOLME BOTTOM CSO	36	110	99.2
Yorkshire Water	Jackson Bridge Dike	ST GEORGE'S ROAD CSO	23	74	100
Yorkshire Water	New Mill Dike	NEW MILL LIBRARY CSO	17	52	81.8
Yorkshire Water	Jackson Bridge Dyke	JACKSON BRIDGE NO 2 CSO	19	50	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Jackson Bridge Dike	SPRING WOOD CSO	14	34	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Ribble	SWAN BANK NO 2 CSO	3	13	100
Yorkshire Water	Rakes Dyke	HEPWORTH ROAD CSO	6	8	100
Yorkshire Water	Rakes Dyke	BUTT LANE CSO	10	3	98.7
Yorkshire Water	New Mill Dike	HUDDERSFIELD ROAD	0	0	82
Yorkshire Water	New Mill Dike	KIRKBRIDGE LANE CSO	0	0	99.9

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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