Water company · Yorkshire
Currently spilling
Serves five million people across Yorkshire and parts of North and North East Lincolnshire. Major rivers: Aire, Calder, Don, Ouse.
Yorkshire Water operates 2,185 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 36 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 1 years across 1,924 events on average. The Truth Engine has 75 open flags against them right now.
2,185
Storm overflows
1
Active right now
36
Monitors offline
75
Open flags
481
Spills · last 7 days
1 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
56 min
Avg event length · 30 days
54
Spills · last 24 hours
27,014
spill events
27,865h
cumulative discharge
18 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2020-02-09
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Yorkshire Water averaged 4.1h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.4h per overflow. ranked 8 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.