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Wakefield

Polluted by sewage 847 times in 2025 lasting 3,406 hours

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Totals for Wakefield in 2025

34 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

847 sewage dumps

3,406 hours duration

That's 4.73 months. On average 2.3 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wakefield 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	River Calder	CALDERVALE (WAKEFIELD) STW	85	727	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	SMALLEY BIGHT (STANLEY) STW	56	321	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	OSSETT SPA SPS AND STORM TANKS	32	244	99.4
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	EASTMOOR CSO	59	198	99
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	PARK HILL FARM CSO	55	188	96.7
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	ABERFORD ROAD CSO	46	188	100
Yorkshire Water	Gill Syke	WATERTON ROAD CSO	56	159	100
Yorkshire Water	Lee Moor Beck	STANLEY MOOR ROAD SPS	25	150	100
Yorkshire Water	Pugney'S Drain	PORTOBELLO SPS	27	133	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	THORNES LANE WHARFE CSO	30	122	100
Yorkshire Water	Owler Beck	STANDBRIDGE LANE CSO	41	113	100
Yorkshire Water	Bowling Beck	THE FALLS SPS	19	106	98.4
Yorkshire Water	Oakenshaw Beck	MONTAGUE STREET CSO	19	103	100
Yorkshire Water	Spring Mill Beck	BAPTISTS LANE CSO	34	97	87.8
Yorkshire Water	Lupset Beck	LUPSET SPS	20	87	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder Via Pumped Outlet	KIRKGATE CHANTRY BRIDGE CSO	23	82	97.7
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	BECTIVE MILLS CSO	37	68	100
Yorkshire Water	Old Mill Stream	CHARLES STREET NO 2 CSO	19	63	100
Yorkshire Water	Carr Gate Beck	CARR GATE BECK CSO	31	63	100
Yorkshire Water	Balne Beck	WRENTHORPE CSO	16	51	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	WHINNEY MOOR PUB HOUSE CSO	26	49	100
Yorkshire Water	Oakenshaw Beck	AGBRIGG GARAGE CSO	9	23	100
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	FLANSHAW ROAD CSO	15	14	98.9
Yorkshire Water	Balne Beck	WRENTHORPE LANE CSO	15	10	99.6
Yorkshire Water	Owler Beck Via Surface Wtr Sw	PLEDWICK CSO	12	9	100
Yorkshire Water	Gill Syke	THORNES ROAD JUNCTION CSO	4	8	82.9
Yorkshire Water	Foster Ford Beck	BRANDY CARR LANE NO 2 CSO	8	7	94.1
Yorkshire Water	Spring Mill Beck	OSSETT TOWNGATE NO 2 CSO	11	6	100
Yorkshire Water	Lupset Beck	HORBURY ROAD M1 CSO	4	2	66.6
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	BOTTOM BOAT ROAD SSO	3	2	99.8
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	FLANSHAW LANE CSO	4	1	100
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	DERWENT GROVE	3	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Owler Beck/Newmillerdam	NEWMILLERDAM CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Calder	DENBY DALE ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Oakenshaw Beck	AGBRIGG GARAGE SPS	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Chapelthorpe Bank Owler B	CHAPELTHORPE CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Carr Gate Beck	BRANDY CARR ROAD 252 CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	Culverted Chald Beck	CLAYTON HILL CSO	0	0	99.6
Yorkshire Water	Alverthorpe Beck	NEW SCARBOROUGH CSO	0	0	85
Yorkshire Water	Cut Beck	WOODSIDE CSO	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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