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River Wiske polluted by sewage 74 times in 2025 - lasting 436 hours

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Totals for River Wiske in 2025
5 Sites polluted by Yorkshire Water
74 sewage dumps
436 h duration
That's 2.6 weeks. 1.4 times a week, on average
Places along River Wiske

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Yorkshire Water River Wiske NORTHALLERTON & ROMANBY STW 51 363 100
Yorkshire Water River Wiske APPLETON WISKE STW 13 66 100
Yorkshire Water River Wiske YAFFORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 6 4 100
Yorkshire Water River Wiske OTTERINGTON ROAD SSO 3 2 78
Yorkshire Water River Wiske MILL HILL LANE SSO 1 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wiske CHANTRY ROAD SSO 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wiske DANBY WISKE SPS 0 0 100
Yorkshire Water River Wiske HALFWAY HOUSE SSO 0 0 99.9

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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