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River Wharfe polluted by sewage 2,456 times in 2023 - lasting 23,120 hours

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Totals for River Wharfe in 2023
32 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
2,456 sewage dumps
23,120 h duration
That's 2.68 years! On average 6.7 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wharfe 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 Wharfe WEETON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 194 3,470 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe POOL WPC WORKS 183 3,118 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BEN RHYDDING (ILKLEY) WPC WORKS, ST 140 2,566 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURLEY/MENSTON (SHEFFIELD) STW 132 2,203 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe OTLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 113 1,526 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ADDINGHAM PUMPING STATION 194 1,439 99.95
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 102 1,318 98.1
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 149 905 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVIL CRESCENT CSO 107 822 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRITANNIA INN CSO 70 616 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KEARBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 54 539 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER BRITTANIA CSO 69 525 79.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe MIDDLETON (ILKLEY) PUMPING STATION 49 507 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WPC WORKS 32 484 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe CHURCH LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 52 447 93
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WHEATLEY LANE 2 CSO 78 442 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KETTLEWELL STW 110 434 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURNSALL CAR PARK SPS 49 295 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BEAMSLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 77 212 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BOLTON BRIDGE SPS 20 168 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe HEBDEN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 29 166 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BILLAMS HILL SSO 76 163 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY ROAD 64 144 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe EBOR WAY CSO 45 128 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SSO 250 METRES DOWNSTREAM 65 118 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe GRASSINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 67 84 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRIDGE STREET SSO 39 82 99.6
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ARTHINGTON LANE CSO 26 75 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WEST CSO 48 64 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SCOTT LANE CSO 15 28 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WATTLE SYKE CSO 2 14 88.4
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURLEY LODGE CSO 6 3 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVILL ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe LEEDS ROAD ILKLEY NO2 CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY BYPASS CSO 0 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WEATHERBY HIGH STREET CSO 0 0 75.8

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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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