River Spen polluted by sewage 330 times in 2023 - lasting 1,416 hours

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Totals for River Spen in 2023
8 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
330 sewage dumps
1,416 h duration
That's 1.97 months. 6.3 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Spen

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Spen 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 Spen HECKMONDWIKE NO 2 CSO 47 503 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen MORRISONS CAR PARK CSO 88 401 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen ST PEG LANE CSO 54 303 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen LISTING MILL FARM CSO 49 93 90.2
Yorkshire Water River Spen DEWSBURY MOOR CSO 54 77 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Spen CHAPEL LANE NO 2 CSO 35 36 71.5
Yorkshire Water River Spen BALME ROAD NO 2 CSO 2 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Spen BATLEY ROAD NO 2 CSO 1 0 96.7
Yorkshire Water River Spen WHITEHALL ROAD 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. 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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