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Totals for River Foss in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

231 sewage dumps
1,284 h duration

That's 1.78 months. 4.4 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	STRENSALL SPS	52	563	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	HAXBY STORM TANKS	29	232	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	HEWORTH GREEN NO 2 CSO	26	120	99.5
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	OLD EARSWICK SPS	20	100	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	MILL HILL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	21	97	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	HUNTINGTON ROAD CSO	20	42	99.7
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	FOSS BANK CSO	14	39	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	MEADOW FIELD CSO	5	25	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	WIGGINTON ROAD SSO	9	22	99.7
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	LAYERTHORPE BRIDGE CSO	15	20	99.6
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	LOWTHER STREET CSO	10	13	100
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	PICCADILLY CSO	10	7	93.3
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	ASHVILLE STREET CSO	0	0	0
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	KITCHENER STREET CSO	0	0	0
Yorkshire Water	River Foss	OAKVILLE STREET CSO	0	0	30.3

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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