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Ottringham Drain polluted by sewage 37 times in 2025 - lasting 156 hours

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Totals for Ottringham Drain in 2025
2 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
37 sewage dumps
156 h duration
That's 6.5 days. 3.1 times a month, over the year
Constituencies along Ottringham Drain
Places along Ottringham Drain

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water Ottringham Drain THE POPLARS SPS 28 114 99.3
Yorkshire Water Ottringham Drain OTTRINGHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 9 42 99.6

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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