Water company · Yorkshire
Recent spills
Serves five million people across Yorkshire and parts of North and North East Lincolnshire. Major rivers: Aire, Calder, Don, Ouse.
Yorkshire Water operates 2,184 monitored storm overflows. 44 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 23.4 years across 1,672 events on average. The Truth Engine has 271 open flags against them right now.
2,184
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
44
Monitors offline
271
Open flags
418
Spills · last 7 days
23.4 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
37.6 h
Avg event length · 30 days
30
Spills · last 24 hours
11,219
spill events
+9096% vs prior 12m
534,546h
cumulative discharge
+37302% vs prior 12m
6 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2020-02-09
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Yorkshire Water averaged 93.9h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.5h per overflow. ranked 4 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most Yorkshire Water overflows discharging into them.