North Sea polluted by sewage 783 times in 2024 - lasting 3,482 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2024
23 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
783 sewage dumps
3,482 h duration
That's 4.84 months. On average 2.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water North Sea LYTHE BANK SPS 47 522 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea RUNSWICK BAY SPS 32 462 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea BRIDLINGTON STW 92 406 99.9
Yorkshire Water North Sea COW WATH BECK CSO 36 389 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea WHITBY ROAD BRIDGE CSO 54 303 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea FILEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 89 272 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea THE WHEATCROFT SHORT SEA OUTFALL 21 258 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea ROBIN HOODS BAY SEA OUTFALL 31 203 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea MAPPLETON SPS 64 177 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea FLAT CLIFFS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 18 109 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea SCALBY NESS OUTFALL 54 94 99.9
Yorkshire Water North Sea BELGRAVE ROAD CSO 34 71 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea HORNSEA SPS 101 67 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea MEMORIAL GARDENS SPS 8 36 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea HILDERTHORPE ROAD CSO 14 20 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea TOLL HOUSE STORMWATER OUTFALL 25 20 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea CAYTON BAY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 19 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea CORNER CAFE CSO 15 12 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea SANDS LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 16 10 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea ST ANNES ROAD CSO 13 10 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea COD & LOBSTER SSO 5 6 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea NEW ROAD BRIDGE CSO 7 5 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea LIMEKILN LANE CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea NORTH TERRACE CSO 0 0 42.3
Yorkshire Water North Sea AQUARIUM TOP STORMWATER OUTFALL 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. This 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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