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Totals for Sowerby Bridge in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

717 sewage dumps

2,649 hours duration

That's 3.68 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 Sowerby Bridge 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 18 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 Calder	HIGH ROYD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	206	1,195	99.77
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	NEW INN WEST STREET CSO	77	604	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	WEST STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	103	283	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	WHARFE HOUSE CSO	65	145	98.5
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	SOWERBY NEW ROAD CSO	66	73	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ELLEN HOUSE ROAD	7	72	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	LONGBOTTOM BRIDGE CSO	9	71	100
Yorkshire Water	Calder+Hebble Navigation Canal	WAKEFIELD ROAD 90 CSO	39	69	95.2
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	BACK WHARF STREET CSO	33	43	86.8
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	PEAR TREE HOLLINS CSO	66	30	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	SOWERBY BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STN	8	26	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	WATSON MILL LANE CSO	7	17	27
Yorkshire Water	Rochdale Canal	HOLLINS LANE CSO	7	7	92.6
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ROCHDALE CANAL CSO	2	4	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	TOWN HALL STREET CSO	18	2	99.9
Yorkshire Water	Nether Ends Beck	STANSFIELD MILL CSO	4	2	58
Yorkshire Water	River Ryburn	SOWERBY CROFT LANE NO 2 CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Warley Clough Dams	WARLEY CLOUGH 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.

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