{"id":496465,"date":"2026-03-26T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:41:12","slug":"yorkshire-water-cuts-sewage-spills-to-1000-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496465\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Water cuts sewage spills to 1,000 a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of underground tanks are being built that can store up to 300,000 litres of waste water to prevent it entering water courses after heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government has set a target for each storm overflow, also known as a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO), to operate on no more than 10 occasions annually. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many in Yorkshire currently operate about 40 times a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Stokes, from Yorkshire Water, said: &#8220;The tanks are sized so that we can make sure they don&#8217;t spill more than 10 times a year, that will have a very minimal impact on water quality, there will be a mixture of run-off from roads and roofs, mixed with the foul sewage from people homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire Water said that reducing the number of spills below 10 would involve billions of pounds additional funding and a complete re-plumbing of the sewer network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of underground tanks are being built that can store up to 300,000 litres of waste water to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}