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Thornton (Bradford)

Polluted by sewage 127 times in 2025 lasting 450 hours

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Totals for Thornton (Bradford) in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
127 sewage dumps
450 hours duration
That's 2.68 weeks. 2.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Constituency for Thornton (Bradford)

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Thornton (Bradford) 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 Pitty Beck THORNTON ROAD 209 CSO 67 236 100
Yorkshire Water Clayton Beck GREEN END NO 2 CSO 13 124 99.6
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck LOWER KIPPING LANE 2 CSO 24 38 100
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck GREEN LANE 206 CSO 3 28 99.8
Yorkshire Water Clayton Beck BRADFORD ROAD 213 CSO 8 11 99
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck DOLE STREET CSO 6 9 89.5
Yorkshire Water High Birks Beck WEST SCHOLES CSO 4 1 85.4
Yorkshire Water Pitty Beck BACK HEIGHTS SPS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck NEW INN BECK CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water Pitty Beck CHARTERIS ROAD CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck DAWSONS HILL CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water Pinch Beck THORNTON ROAD 201 CSO 0 0 94.6

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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