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Yorkshire Water

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. 54 monitors are offline. The data records a cumulative discharge of 51 weeks across this operator's network in the last 30 days across an estimated 1,564 events. The Truth Engine has 71 open flags for this operator's overflows right now.

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2,185

Storm overflows

1

Active right now

54

Monitors offline

71

Open flags

391

Spills · last 7 days

51 weeks

Cumulative discharge · 30 days

47 min

Avg event length · 30 days

85

Spills · last 24 hours

Spill record· since 6 May 2026 · network-wide

36,617

spill events

23,390h

cumulative discharge

4 weeks

longest single event

2026-05-06

first event on record

Across 11 water companies in the EA dataset, Yorkshire Water averaged 3.9h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 3.9h per overflow. ranked 6 of 11 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.

Most-discharged-into watercourses

The 12 watercourses with the most Yorkshire Water overflows discharging into them.

Currently spilling· 1

  1. 01

    Unknown

    YWS02298 · spilling for 4 weeks

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Truth Engine flags against Yorkshire Water· 25 open

Monitors offline· 49