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River Rother polluted by sewage 1,150 times in 2025 - lasting 6,823 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Rother OLD WHITTINGTON (CHESTERFIELD) STW 89 1,257 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Rother DANESMOOR WWTW 133 1,179 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother DANESMOOR NO 3 CSO 44 606 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Rother CROW LANE WORKS CSO 62 540 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother WOODHOUSE MILL WWTW 69 488 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother AVENUE FARM CSO 66 329 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother SHEFFIELD ROAD KILMARSH CSO 41 229 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother LONG LANE STW 22 219 94.5
Yorkshire Water River Rother MAIN ROAD FARM CSO 43 185 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother RETFORD RD RECREATION GROUND 3 CSO 53 185 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother RETFORD ROAD CSO 19 175 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 43 164 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother BRINSWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 49 128 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother POTTERY LANE EAST CSO 39 123 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Rother TREETON MILL LANE SEW PUMPING STN 29 119 98.7
Yorkshire Water River Rother HALL TERRACE CLAY CROSS & HIGH HAZE 62 113 97.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother HASLAND HORNS BRIDGE CSO 22 89 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother EAST COWICK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 11 74 96.8
Yorkshire Water River Rother STORFORTH LANE CSO 25 71 98.8
Yorkshire Water River Rother ST AUGUSTINES AVENUE CSO 22 62 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother CLAYTON STREET SOUTH CSO 5 58 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother DERBY ROAD GARAGE CSO 10 48 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Rother DERBY ROAD NORTH CSO 10 43 92.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother PILSEY NO 2 CSO 17 41 90.3
Yorkshire Water River Rother HAWTHORNE STREET SPS 5 41 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother RETFORD ROAD NO 2 CSO 24 39 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother WORKS ROAD CSO 11 36 62.5
Yorkshire Water River Rother MILL GREEN CSO 14 35 93.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother WHITEHALL LANE CSO 7 25 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Rother ST AUGUSTINES DRIVE CSO 19 23 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother STATION ROAD BRIMINGTON CSO 11 22 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother CANKLOW CSO 8 18 98.8
Yorkshire Water River Rother TULIP TREE CLOSE CSO 10 13 62.4
Yorkshire Water River Rother POTTERY LANE WEST CSO 15 8 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother CHESTERFIELD SPITAL LANE SW PMPG ST 14 6 99.3
Yorkshire Water River Rother GREENGATES LANE CSO 8 6 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother NORTH WINGFIELD CSO 7 5 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother LINCOLN STREET CSO 7 4 82.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother GRASSHILL FARM CSO 3 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother BRIMMINGTON ROAD CSO 2 0 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Rother BRIMINGTON ROAD CSO 0 0 1.7
Yorkshire Water River Rother CHESTERFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 15.6
Yorkshire Water River Rother OLD WHIT HIGH STREET CSO 0 0 97.8
Yorkshire Water River Rother SHEFFIELD ROAD FIRE STATION CSO 0 0 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Rother ALBERT ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Rother WEST HANDLEY CSO 0 0 1.3
Yorkshire Water River Rother THE MALTINGS CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Rother JOHN CALVERT LANE CSO 0 0 99.3

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.

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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