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Totals for Shipley in 2025

24 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

747 sewage dumps

2,429 hours duration

That's 3.37 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Shipley 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 28 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	Bradford Beck	CANAL ROAD FRIZINGHALL CSO	100	617	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	DOWLEY GAP (BINGLEY) WWTW	78	510	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	BRANKSOME DRIVE CSO	56	206	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	PRIMROSE LANE CSO	52	162	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	DOCK LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	67	153	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	DOCKFIELD ROAD CSO	51	132	57.6
Yorkshire Water	Brackendale Beck	BUCK MILL LANE CSO	51	104	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	GREEN LANE 125 CSO	50	102	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	YORKSHIRE WATER FRIZLEY GARDENS BRA	36	96	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	MIDLAND ROAD CSO	24	87	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	COACH ROAD CSO	35	86	100
Yorkshire Water	Barnsley Beack To River Aire	SOUTH STATION ROAD CSO	39	49	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	COACH ROAD SPS	5	48	100
Yorkshire Water	Cottingley Beck	MANOR DRIVE CSO	33	14	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	HIGHER COACH ROAD NO 2 CSO	7	12	100
Yorkshire Water	Cottingley Beck	MAIN STREET NO 2 CSO	13	12	99.7
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	BRADFORD BECK 2 CSO	8	9	100
Yorkshire Water	Trap Sike	POWELL ROAD CSO	13	8	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	VALLEY ROAD SHIPLEY 2 CSO	13	6	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	CANAL ROAD 331 CSO	6	5	100
Yorkshire Water	Trap Sike	RIDGEWAY CSO	3	1	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	HIRD STREET NO 2 CSO	4	1	92.2
Yorkshire Water	Barnsley Beck	STATION RD BAILDON NO.2 CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Bradford Beck	POPLAR ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	DOCKFIELDS NO 2 SPS	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	GREEN LANE JUNCTION NO 2 CSO	0	0	23.1
Yorkshire Water	Trap Sike	LIVINGSTONE ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Aire	METAL BOX SPS	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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