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Car Brook polluted by sewage 180 times in 2025 - lasting 521 hours

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Totals for Car Brook in 2025
8 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
180 sewage dumps
521 h duration
That's 3.1 weeks. 3.5 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Car Brook

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Car Brook in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water Car Brook CATCLIFFE ROAD CSO 32 331 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook PRINCE OF WALES PUBLIC SEWER 44 76 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook POOLE ROAD EAST/2 CSO 32 50 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook HANDSWORTH ROAD NO 2 CSO 30 32 98.3
Yorkshire Water Car Brook GREENLAND ROAD CSO 21 23 99.8
Yorkshire Water Car Brook GREENLAND WAY CSO 8 4 86.3
Yorkshire Water Car Brook PRINCE OF WALES ROAD 2 CSO 8 2 100
Yorkshire Water Car Brook BOWDEN HOWSTEAD NO 2 CSO 5 1 75

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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