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Costa Beck polluted by sewage 117 times in 2025 - lasting 1,043 hours

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Totals for Costa Beck in 2025
4 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
117 sewage dumps
1,043 h duration
That's 1.45 months. 2.2 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Costa Beck
Places along Costa Beck

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water Costa Beck KIRBY MISPERTON STW 56 842 100
Yorkshire Water Costa Beck PICKERING SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 42 120 100
Yorkshire Water Costa Beck LITTLE BARUGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORK 18 76 100
Yorkshire Water Costa Beck AISLABY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 1 4 100

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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