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River Ouse polluted by sewage 2,774 times in 2023 - lasting 27,386 hours

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Totals for River Ouse in 2023
42 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
2,774 sewage dumps
27,386 h duration
That's 3.17 years! On average 7.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Ouse in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Ouse WISTOW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 328 5,106 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse WOOLWORTHS CSO 204 3,649 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FULFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 132 2,143 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOWDEN STW 178 1,592 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BUTCHER TERRACE CSO 99 1,469 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 105 1,450 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LENDAL HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 114 1,356 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANDING CSO (NO2) 97 1,343 92.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse THE ESPLANADE YORK CSO 125 1,334 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BARLBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 103 1,253 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TRAFALGAR STREET CSO 158 1,080 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse NABURN YORK ROAD SPS 42 706 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CHURCH END SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 73 702 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GILBERDYKE STW 153 677 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse RIVERSIDE GARDENS SPS 76 562 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse KNAVESMIRE ROAD CSO 57 452 83
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CARR LANE SPS 95 420 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANE CSO 49 418 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SELBY SEWAGE TREAMENT WORKS 52 400 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BARLBY ROAD SPS 70 203 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOOK STW 83 139 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HEMINGBROUGH WPC WORKS 37 112 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEENS STAITH CSO 56 108 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MILLFIELD LANE CSO 38 101 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ASSELBY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 40 91 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD SSO 20 90 91.2
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CASTLE MILLS CSO 34 87 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TADCASTER ROAD CSO & BISHOPTHORPE 11 79 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse COMMON HALL LANE CSO 10 74 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LANDING LANE CSO 23 41 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 23 39 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FARNDALE STREET CSO 12 27 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEEN STREET BRIDGE CSO 18 17 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOWDEN ROAD 2 12 93.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LOWER POPPLETON LANE SPS 6 11 9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BOOTHAM HOSPITAL CSO 10 9 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GOOLE LOCK HILL SPS 4 9 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GROSVENOR TERRACE CSO 8 3 64.4
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FISHER END SSO 6 2 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 21 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse RAWCLIFFE SPS 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HARTOFT STREET CSO 1 0 64
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.1 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TERRY AVENUE CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 0 0 2.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse PORTLAND STREET CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse NEW WALK CSO 0 0 0

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. This 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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