River Wharfe polluted by sewage 1,687 times in 2022 - lasting 10,798 hours

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Totals for River Wharfe in 2022
35 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
1,687 sewage dumps
10,798 h duration
That's 1.25 years! On average 4.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wharfe in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page - This is because there is an invalid grid reference on the pollution consent - so we don't know where the CSO is. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe POOL WPC WORKS 104 1,230 83.7
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BEN RHYDDING (ILKLEY) WPC WORKS, ST 74 1,098 99
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 142 961 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURLEY/MENSTON (SHEFFIELD) STW 76 857 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 51 830 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ADDINGHAM PUMPING STATION 124 746 99.1
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe OTLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 67 725 96.75
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WEETON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 70 685 99.5
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRITANNIA INN CSO 71 530 99.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVIL CRESCENT CSO 75 408 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KEARBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 38 320 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WHEATLEY LANE 2 CSO 69 265 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe KETTLEWELL STW 99 252 99.85
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe GRASSINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 88 225 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe MIDDLETON (ILKLEY) PUMPING STATION 34 223 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe HEBDEN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 44 181 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BEAMSLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 34 158 44.4
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURNSALL CAR PARK SPS 48 151 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe CHURCH LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 37 150 90.5
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BILLAMS HILL SSO 65 126 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BOLTON BRIDGE SPS 14 122 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WEST CSO 52 116 99.4
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe EBOR WAY CSO 45 111 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER BRITTANIA CSO 19 87 17.3
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SSO 250 METRES DOWNSTREAM 58 78 99.7
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ILKLEY ROAD 38 69 92.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BRIDGE STREET SSO 19 50 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe ARTHINGTON LANE CSO 16 17 64.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WETHERBY BYPASS CSO 3 9 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SCOTT LANE CSO 4 1 99.2
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WATTLE SYKE CSO 1 1 91
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe LEEDS ROAD ILKLEY NO2 CSO 3 0 98.5
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe TADCASTER WPC WORKS 1 0 99.9
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe BURLEY LODGE CSO 3 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WYVILL ROAD CSO 1 0 77.8
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe SSO HIGH STREET 0 0 98.6
Yorkshire Water River Wharfe WEATHERBY HIGH STREET 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

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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