River Derwent polluted by sewage 557 times in 2025 - lasting 4,475 hours

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Totals for River Derwent in 2025
17 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
557 sewage dumps
4,475 h duration
That's 6.22 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Derwent KEXBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 89 1,197 99.1
Yorkshire Water River Derwent STAMFORD BRIDGE NORTH SPS 62 1,110 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent MALTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 35 419 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent CASTLEGATE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 20 402 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent HOWSHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 31 372 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent STAMFORD BRIDGE SPS 38 345 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent CHANDLERS WHARF SPS 23 223 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent NORTON CHURCH STREET CSO 54 113 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent SHEEPFOOT HILL CSO 6 91 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent CRAMBE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 11 63 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent WHEELGATE CSO 46 56 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent LASCELLES LANE SPS 31 38 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent MALTON HOLMESFIELD SPS 88 22 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent AYTON FOOTBRIDGE SSO 13 13 96.9
Yorkshire Water River Derwent CARR LANE EAST AYTON CSO 3 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent HAWKSWELL LANE CSO 5 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent OLD MALTONGATE CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent THE BROWS CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Derwent TOWN STREET MALTON CSO 0 0 97.3
Yorkshire Water River Derwent YORKERSGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 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

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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