River Wharfe polluted by sewage 1,944 times in 2024 - lasting 14,799 hours

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Totals for River Wharfe in 2024
33 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,944 sewage dumps
14,799 h duration
That's 1.71 years! On average 5.3 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wharfe in 2024. 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 Wharfe BEN RHYDDING (ILKLEY) WPC WORKS, ST 158 2,504 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WEETON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 164 2,442 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURLEY/MENSTON (SHEFFIELD) STW 126 1,950 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe POOL WPC WORKS 154 1,076 95.3
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 137 975 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ADDINGHAM PUMPING STATION 89 695 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe OTLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 85 661 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVIL CRESCENT CSO 87 569 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe HEBDEN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 50 367 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KEARBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 38 305 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KETTLEWELL STW 97 302 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe MIDDLETON (ILKLEY) PUMPING STATION 38 281 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER BRITTANIA CSO 33 267 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WPC WORKS 29 266 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WHEATLEY LANE 2 CSO 50 243 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BEAMSLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 104 238 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRITANNIA INN CSO 31 238 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 46 230 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe CHURCH LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 41 210 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURNSALL CAR PARK SPS 35 192 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe EBOR WAY CSO 43 150 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BILLAMS HILL SSO 64 135 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SSO 250 METRES DOWNSTREAM 40 107 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WEST CSO 54 104 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY ROAD 46 98 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe GRASSINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 36 54 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ARTHINGTON LANE CSO 20 51 94.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRIDGE STREET SSO 15 33 52.3
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BOLTON BRIDGE SPS 10 29 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SCOTT LANE CSO 14 9 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURLEY LODGE CSO 6 2 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY BYPASS CSO 3 0 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WEATHERBY HIGH STREET CSO 1 0 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVILL ROAD CSO 0 0 86.6
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe LEEDS ROAD ILKLEY NO2 CSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WATTLE SYKE CSO 0 0 86.5

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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