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Totals for River Swale in 2025

17 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

623 sewage dumps
3,774 h duration

That's 5.24 months. On average 1.7 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	COLBURN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	85	1,384	99.95
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	MYTON ON SWALE SEWAGE WORKS	61	938	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	THE BATTS CSO	87	376	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	RICHMOND SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	52	364	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	RICHMOND SSO	77	211	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	RIVERSIDE ROAD NO.2 CSO	48	126	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	RUGBY FIELD RICHMOND CSO	47	83	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	REETH ROAD NO 2 CSO	48	80	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	JAMESVILLE WAY CSO	31	65	99.9
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	CATTERICK BRIDGE SPS	23	61	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	HELPERBY (BRAFFERTON) SPS	33	48	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	SKIPTON ON SWALE STW	10	18	99.5
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	MORTON ON SWALE SPS	4	10	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	RICHMOND BRIDGE NO2 CSO	6	2	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	RICHMOND BATHS CSO	6	1	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	GUNNERSIDE STW	4	1	88.1
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	CATTERICK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	1	1	100
Yorkshire Water	River Swale	GREAT LANGTON SPS	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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