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Totals for River Ure in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water

1,797 sewage dumps
4,215 h duration

That's 5.85 months. On average 4.9 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	LEYBURN WPC WORKS	118	1,770	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	RIPON WPC WORKS	1,162	457	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	HAWES SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	78	371	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	MARKINGTON STW FINAL EFFLUENT	42	354	97.7
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	LANGTHORPE SPS	45	282	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	EAST WITTON CSO	33	229	98.6
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	PARK VIEW CSO	42	158	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	MASHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	38	107	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	ALDWARK MOOR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	44	104	99.3
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	CLOCK TOWER CSO	43	100	74.7
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	SHAROW SPS	22	78	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	MILLGATE MASHAM CSO	30	68	92.7
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	MIDDLEHAM SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	24	43	99.8
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	CSO AT CLOCK TOWER/STONEBRIDGE/	30	31	83.93
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	LEYBURN ROAD CSO	30	29	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	MILBY ISLAND SPS	2	19	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	SILVER STREET CSO	10	6	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	AYSGARTH FALLS STW	4	3	100
Yorkshire Water	River Ure	HETTON GARTH 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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