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Totals for Sowerby Bridge in 2024

18 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

866 sewage dumps

4,406 hours duration

That's 6.12 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Sowerby Bridge

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sowerby Bridge 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 2 of the total 18 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	HIGH ROYD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	219	1,683	99.87
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	NEW INN WEST STREET CSO	122	1,392	95.4
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	WEST STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	137	548	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ELLEN HOUSE ROAD	28	199	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	WHARFE HOUSE CSO	80	194	97.1
Yorkshire Water	Calder+Hebble Navigation Canal	WAKEFIELD ROAD 90 CSO	64	107	99.7
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	SOWERBY NEW ROAD CSO	74	95	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	LONGBOTTOM BRIDGE CSO	16	88	100
Yorkshire Water	Nether Ends Beck	STANSFIELD MILL CSO	16	43	30.1
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	PEAR TREE HOLLINS CSO	37	18	91.5
Yorkshire Water	Rochdale Canal	HOLLINS LANE CSO	15	11	93.9
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	WATSON MILL LANE CSO	8	8	10.6
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	BACK WHARF STREET CSO	28	7	61.5
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	TOWN HALL STREET CSO	17	2	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	SOWERBY BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STN	2	2	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ROCHDALE CANAL CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	SOWERBY CROFT LANE NO 2 CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Warley Clough Dams	WARLEY CLOUGH CSO	1	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.

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Sowerby Bridge Polluted by sewage 866 times in 2024 lasting 4,406 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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