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River Ryburn polluted by sewage 251 times in 2025 - lasting 2,246 hours

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Totals for River Ryburn in 2025
5 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
251 sewage dumps
2,246 h duration
That's 3.12 months. 4.8 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Ryburn

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn RIPPONDEN WOOD STW 56 1,311 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn NEW INN WEST STREET CSO 77 604 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn WEST STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 103 283 100
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn LUMB CLOUGH CSO 8 29 99
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn WATSON MILL LANE CSO 7 17 27
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn OLD BRIDGE INN CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Ryburn SOWERBY CROFT LANE NO 2 CSO 0 0 100

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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