River Swale polluted by sewage 1,016 times in 2023 - lasting 7,595 hours

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Totals for River Swale in 2023
16 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,016 sewage dumps
7,595 h duration
That's 10.55 months. On average 2.8 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Swale 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 Swale COLBURN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 198 3,032 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Swale MYTON ON SWALE SEWAGE WORKS 95 1,452 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Swale RICHMOND SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 101 952 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale GUNNERSIDE STW 105 872 99.1
Yorkshire Water River Swale RICHMOND SSO 103 308 98.4
Yorkshire Water River Swale THE BATTS CSO 82 251 86
Yorkshire Water River Swale REETH ROAD NO 2 CSO 73 161 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale RUGBY FIELD RICHMOND CSO 73 128 96
Yorkshire Water River Swale RIVERSIDE ROAD NO.2 CSO 53 127 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale CATTERICK BRIDGE SPS 47 127 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale MORTON ON SWALE SPS 11 68 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale HELPERBY (BRAFFERTON) SPS 37 44 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale SKIPTON ON SWALE STW 13 38 52
Yorkshire Water River Swale RICHMOND BATHS CSO 20 18 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Swale CATTERICK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 6 96.5
Yorkshire Water River Swale RICHMOND BRIDGE NO2 CSO 4 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Swale GREAT LANGTON SPS 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Swale LOMBARDS WYND 1 CSO 0 0 0
Yorkshire Water River Swale JAMESVILLE WAY CSO 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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