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Ditch polluted by sewage 85 times in 2025 - lasting 385 hours

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Totals for Ditch in 2025
6 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
85 sewage dumps
385 h duration
That's 2.29 weeks. 1.6 times a week, on average
Places along Ditch

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water Ditch BEEFORD SPS 10 123 100
Yorkshire Water Ditch WHELDRAKE SPS 21 114 100
Yorkshire Water Ditch CARRS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 13 82 100
Yorkshire Water Ditch FOLKTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 22 40 100
Yorkshire Water Ditch STAXTON VILLAGE SPS 18 21 99.8
Yorkshire Water Ditch AISLABY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 1 4 99.8
Yorkshire Water Ditch FANGFOSS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 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

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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