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Totals for North Sea in 2025

23 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

599 sewage dumps
2,283 h duration

That's 3.17 months. On average 1.6 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	COW WATH BECK CSO	33	434	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	BRIDLINGTON STW	108	297	93.7
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	WHITBY ROAD BRIDGE CSO	44	249	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	MAPPLETON SPS	48	230	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	FILEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS	60	159	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	SANDS LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	41	131	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	SCALBY NESS OUTFALL	49	103	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	CAYTON BAY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	7	94	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	LYTHE BANK SPS	8	87	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	THE WHEATCROFT SHORT SEA OUTFALL	11	87	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	RUNSWICK BAY SPS	10	76	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	HORNSEA SPS	63	70	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	BELGRAVE ROAD CSO	37	65	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	FLAT CLIFFS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	10	58	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	ROBIN HOODS BAY SEA OUTFALL	17	44	99.9
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	MEMORIAL GARDENS SPS	8	39	99.9
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	TOLL HOUSE STORMWATER OUTFALL	18	22	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	HILDERTHORPE ROAD CSO	12	13	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	CORNER CAFE CSO	6	7	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	ST ANNES ROAD CSO	4	5	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	LIMEKILN LANE CSO	2	2	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	NEW ROAD BRIDGE CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	COD & LOBSTER SSO	1	0	99.3
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	AQUARIUM TOP STORMWATER OUTFALL	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	North Sea	NORTH TERRACE 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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