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. 39 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 6.5 years across 2,492 events on average. The Truth Engine has 133 open flags against them right now.
2,185
Storm overflows
1
Active right now
39
Monitors offline
133
Open flags
623
Spills · last 7 days
6.5 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
30.6 h
Avg event length · 30 days
242
Spills · last 24 hours
14,956
spill events
+10286% vs prior 12m
1,698,186h
cumulative discharge
+115514% vs prior 12m
13 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2020-02-09
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Yorkshire Water averaged 26.0h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 23.6h per overflow. ranked 7 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.