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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

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Constituencies along River Wharfe

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

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

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