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River Humber polluted by sewage 661 times in 2025 - lasting 4,166 hours

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Totals for River Humber in 2025
8 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
661 sewage dumps
4,166 h duration
That's 5.79 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Humber HULL WWTW 116 1,560 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber MELTON STW 298 1,462 98.55
Yorkshire Water River Humber NORTH FERRIBY STW 108 580 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber BRICKYARD COTTAGE SPS 55 178 97.5
Yorkshire Water River Humber HEDON WWTW 20 170 98.3
Yorkshire Water River Humber HEDON (BASIN BRIDGE) SPS 11 81 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber FERRIBY HIGH ROAD SPS 9 67 100
Yorkshire Water River Humber BROUGH NO 1 SPS 44 65 100

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.

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