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North Sea polluted by sewage 891 times in 2023 - lasting 4,376 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2023
25 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
891 sewage dumps
4,376 h duration
That's 6.08 months. On average 2.4 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea in 2023. 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 SCARBOROUGH WASTE WATER TREATMENT 75 1,125 99.9
Yorkshire Water North Sea THE WHEATCROFT SHORT SEA OUTFALL 43 598 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea RUNSWICK BAY SPS 32 459 99.8
Yorkshire Water North Sea WHITBY ROAD BRIDGE CSO 79 406 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea COW WATH BECK CSO 38 390 99.7
Yorkshire Water North Sea BRIDLINGTON STW 135 336 99.95
Yorkshire Water North Sea ROBIN HOODS BAY SEA OUTFALL 35 274 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea FILEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 97 207 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea SCALBY NESS OUTFALL 59 122 99.9
Yorkshire Water North Sea MAPPLETON SPS 64 117 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea FLAT CLIFFS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 18 79 99.1
Yorkshire Water North Sea LYTHE BANK SPS 14 52 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea MEMORIAL GARDENS SPS 11 52 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea HORNSEA SPS 58 49 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea CAYTON BAY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 7 21 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea CORNER CAFE CSO 12 19 98.8
Yorkshire Water North Sea TOLL HOUSE STORMWATER OUTFALL 32 15 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea SANDS LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 24 11 99.5
Yorkshire Water North Sea HILDERTHORPE ROAD CSO 18 11 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea ST ANNES ROAD CSO 15 10 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea NEW ROAD BRIDGE CSO 10 7 97.7
Yorkshire Water North Sea COD & LOBSTER SSO 10 3 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea LIMEKILN LANE CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water North Sea AQUARIUM TOP STORMWATER OUTFALL 1 0 97
Yorkshire Water North Sea BELGRAVE ROAD CSO 1 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. This 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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