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Totals for River Colne in 2025

39 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

1,002 sewage dumps
3,445 h duration

That's 4.78 months. On average 2.7 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	THISTLE STREET CSO	117	1,122	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BARBER ROW NO 2 CSO	72	351	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	TITANIC MILLS CSO	50	212	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	WOOD BOTTOM CSO	57	203	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BRIDGE ST CSO	45	188	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BOG GREEN LANE	54	149	86.7
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	COLNE ROAD CSO	37	117	99.1
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	RED DOLES ROAD CSO	44	108	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	GORDON TERRACE CSO	29	107	99.7
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	NEWSOME ROAD CSO	40	90	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	DAISY STREET CSO	31	89	87.5
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	GASWORKS STREET CSO	49	85	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	LONGROYD MANCH ROAD CSO	47	65	57.3
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	ANCHOR STREET CSO	34	63	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	FACTORY LANE CSO	23	60	87.6
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	MORLEY LANE CSO	32	41	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	WILLOW LANE BECK CSO	28	37	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BRADLEY MILLS ROAD SPS	3	36	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	WILLOW LANE CSO	27	34	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BEN SHAWS CSO	18	32	72.4
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	CARR PIT ROAD CSO	10	32	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	MILNS SHAW LANE NO 2 CSO	20	31	99.7
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	KINGS MILL LANE NO 2 CSO	9	30	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	LONGLEY PARK CSO	9	30	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	FERNLEA GROVE CSO	16	28	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	23	20	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	DOG KENNEL BANK/SOMERSET ROAD CSO	13	17	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BARGATE CSO	8	17	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	SCAR LANE CSO	11	15	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BROOK LANE CSO	14	9	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	RAMSDEN MILL CSO	4	8	99.6
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	CROSLAND ST/BLACKMOORFOOT RD CSO	15	5	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	WHITEHEAD LANE CSO	5	1	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	COPLEY BANK CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	ALANDALE ROAD BRADLEY CSO	2	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	ST THOMAS ROAD CSO	2	0	99.5
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	PICKFORD STREET CSO	1	0	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	IVY STREET CSO	1	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	LONGROYD MANCH ROAD CSO	1	0	92.3
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	BROOK MOTORS CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	CHARLIE BROWNS CSO	0	0	100
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	LONGROYD BRIDGE CSO	0	0	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Colne	SPRINGDALE MILLS CSO	0	0	99.9

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.

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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