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River Don polluted by sewage 2,489 times in 2025 - lasting 10,162 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Don ROTHERHAM ERSKINE ROAD SPS 107 1,507 100
Yorkshire Water River Don BLACKBURN MEADOWS STW 83 1,192 100
Yorkshire Water River Don THURGOLAND SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 103 830 100
Yorkshire Water River Don SWINTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 106 800 85.7
Yorkshire Water River Don WHARNCLIFFE SIDE STW 81 763 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EWDEN WWTW 49 599 100
Yorkshire Water River Don HIGH BRIDGE HILLSBOROUGH CSO 80 508 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Don WENTWORTH/BRIDGE END CSO 69 467 100
Yorkshire Water River Don INGBIRCHWORTH STW 88 395 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Don EASTWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO 77 378 100
Yorkshire Water River Don BOOTHAM LANE PUMPING STATION 164 363 99.29
Yorkshire Water River Don ALDWARKE WWTW 936 316 86.4
Yorkshire Water River Don SPRINGVALE CSO 51 272 100
Yorkshire Water River Don THORNE WWTW 31 204 92.4
Yorkshire Water River Don WHARNCLIFFE SIDE SPS 47 186 100
Yorkshire Water River Don FITZWILLIAM CENTRE CSO 45 165 100
Yorkshire Water River Don SANDALL WWTW 15 149 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don BROMPTON ROAD CSO 59 146 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don KIRTON LANE SPS 27 143 100
Yorkshire Water River Don LANGSETT ROAD CSO 36 137 100
Yorkshire Water River Don DENABY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 32 134 100
Yorkshire Water River Don FERRYBOAT LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STN 13 96 100
Yorkshire Water River Don STOCKSBRIDGE CSO 19 72 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Don CLIFTON PARK CSO 24 55 98.1
Yorkshire Water River Don BACON LANE CSO 34 53 100
Yorkshire Water River Don FOSTERS GARAGE SPS 10 40 100
Yorkshire Water River Don STATION LANE CSO 12 31 100
Yorkshire Water River Don RAWMARSH ROAD SPS 11 25 100
Yorkshire Water River Don CHEESEBOTTOM STW 8 23 100
Yorkshire Water River Don CRICKET INN CRESCENT CSO 6 23 47.4
Yorkshire Water River Don BURGOYNE ROAD CSO 21 22 94.5
Yorkshire Water River Don GREYS BRIDGE CSO 3 20 100
Yorkshire Water River Don SWINTON (KILNHURST-HOOTON RD) SPS 9 18 100
Yorkshire Water River Don CARLISLE STREET ROUNDABOUT CSO 17 10 77.6
Yorkshire Water River Don CARLISLE STREET ROUNDABOUT CSO 10 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Don BURNABY CRESCENT CSO 3 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Don THORNE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Don WATER LANE ROTHERHAM CSO 1 0 70.4
Yorkshire Water River Don PARKSIDE ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don SMITHS SQUARE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don NORTH CLIFF ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don MARSH STREET CSO/SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don DUDLEY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don GILPIN STREET DVISA A22 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don ALMA STREET SHEFFIELD CSO 0 0 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Don WAINGATE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don ATTERCLIFFE COMMON CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EFFINGHAM ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don EFFINGHAM STREET CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don FURNIVAL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Don MEADOWHALL WAY NO.2 CSO 0 0 97.7
Yorkshire Water River Don VULCAN ROAD 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.

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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