River Ouse polluted by sewage 1,656 times in 2022 - lasting 9,755 hours

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Totals for River Ouse in 2022
40 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,656 sewage dumps
9,755 h duration
That's 1.13 years! On average 4.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Ouse in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page - This is because there is an invalid grid reference on the pollution consent - so we don't know where the CSO is. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Ouse WOOLWORTHS CSO 79 1,472 34.5
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FULFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 79 1,069 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOWDEN STW 97 797 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LENDAL HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 85 741 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANDING CSO (NO2) 62 635 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Ouse THE ESPLANADE YORK CSO 83 619 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 63 596 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse WISTOW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 88 549 97.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BUTCHER TERRACE CSO 51 541 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TRAFALGAR STREET CSO 118 413 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse KNAVESMIRE ROAD CSO 79 343 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CARR LANE SPS 61 266 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SELBY SEWAGE TREAMENT WORKS 24 231 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Ouse RIVERSIDE GARDENS SPS 51 166 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ASSELBY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 35 161 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse NABURN YORK ROAD SPS 17 150 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BARLBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 31 142 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MILLFIELD LANE CSO 47 111 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BARLBY ROAD SPS 63 109 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEENS STAITH CSO 27 97 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOOK STW 81 93 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse NEW WALK CSO 14 69 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TADCASTER ROAD CSO & BISHOPTHORPE 8 65 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GILBERDYKE STW 109 51 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Ouse COMMON HALL LANE CSO 5 42 99
Yorkshire Water River Ouse MARYGATE LANE CSO 29 38 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GROSVENOR TERRACE CSO 30 36 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD SSO 15 33 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HEMINGBROUGH WPC WORKS 16 30 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FARNDALE STREET CSO 15 27 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LANDING LANE CSO 9 17 25
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 24 14 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse QUEEN STREET BRIDGE CSO 20 6 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse BOOTHAM HOSPITAL CSO 7 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse FISHER END SSO 2 1 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse SKELDERGATE BRIDGE CSO 22 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse GOOLE LOCK HILL SPS 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HARTOFT STREET CSO 5 0 19.3
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.2 CSO 2 0 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse RAWCLIFFE SPS 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse HOWDEN ROAD 0 0 86.1
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CHURCH END SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse PORTLAND STREET CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ouse ROYAL YORK HOTEL NO.1 CSO 0 0 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Ouse CASTLE MILLS CSO 0 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Ouse TERRY AVENUE CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Ouse JUBILEE TERRACE CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Ouse LOWER POPPLETON LANE SPS 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

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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