Surface water flooding at Eastborough Scarborough

Reference Number: EIR 968

Dear James Corrigan

The Yorkshire Water Services Ltd Data Protection Team acknowledges your
request on 22 February 2025 for information.

We will respond to your request for information in compliance with the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

The Regulations allow us 20 working days to respond to a request from the
date of its receipt.  However, occasionally it is necessary to extend the
20-working-day time limit for issuing a response if the complexity and
volume of the information makes it impractical for us to respond within
the original deadline.  If this is the case we will notify you of this
delay.

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of the information. We will also provide you with an explanation if we are
unable to disclose and respond to your request.  If the requested
information contains references to any third parties, we may need to
consult with them before deciding whether to release the information.

Should you have any queries regarding your request, please feel free to
contact us quoting reference EIR 968.

Yours sincerely,

Data Protection Team

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Reference Number: EIR 968

Dear James Corrigan,

I refer to your request for information submitted to Yorkshire Water dated
22 February 2025:

“Please can you confirm whether or not Yorkshire Water, acting as local water
authority, has informed the Environment Agency (EA) of the known surface water
flooding arising from the overwhelmed combined sewer in Eastborough, Scarborough
in order to enable the EA to include this data in the new National Flood Risk
Assessment (NaFRA).  During flash flooding events, the overwhelmed combined
sewer spills raw sewage onto the carriageway of Eastborough, which then runs
down onto West Pier, Foreshore Road and the South Bay beach.  The South Bay’s
bathing water has been rated as poor, with warning signs advising against
bathing in the sea being a familiar sight since 2018.

The issue of flash flooding in relation to Eastborough’s combined sewer was
raised with representatives of Yorkshire Water by NYC Councillors at the
Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee meeting of 1 December 2023.  The minutes
(see item 50 of the full minutes via the link below) state that Yorkshire Water
would raise the matter with NYC Drainage Engineers. Please can you confirm if
Yorkshire Water has discussed the matter with NYC Drainage Engineers as per the
above minutes.”

Included within this email are the responses to your questions:

 1. Please can you confirm whether or not Yorkshire Water, acting as local
water authority, has informed the Environment Agency (EA) of the known
surface water flooding arising from the overwhelmed combined sewer in
Eastborough, Scarborough in order to enable the EA to include this
data in the new National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA).  During flash
flooding events, the overwhelmed combined sewer spills raw sewage onto
the carriageway of Eastborough, which then runs down onto West Pier,
Foreshore Road and the South Bay beach.  The South Bay’s bathing water
has been rated as poor, with warning signs advising against bathing in
the sea being a familiar sight since 2018.

After consulting with the business, we can confirm that the Environment
Agency's (EA) National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA) does not use any
water company data.

 2. The issue of flash flooding in relation to Eastborough’s combined
sewer was raised with representatives of Yorkshire Water by NYC
Councillors at the Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee meeting of 1
December 2023.  The minutes (see item 50 of the full minutes via the
link below) state that Yorkshire Water would raise the matter with NYC
Drainage Engineers. Please can you confirm if Yorkshire Water has
discussed the matter with NYC Drainage Engineers as per the above
minutes.

After discussing your request with the business we can confirm we hold no
information in relation to this. As such for the purpose of EIR we applied
exemption 12(4)(1)(a), a public authority may refuse to disclose
information to the extent that (a) it does not hold that information when
an applicant’s request is received.

I trust that the provision of this data satisfies your request.  In
accordance with the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, if you are
not satisfied with this reply to your request you can ask for an internal
review.  A request for an internal review must be submitted within 40
working days by contacting the Data Protection Team.

Thank you for contacting Yorkshire Water.

Yours sincerely,

Data Protection Team

Email: [1][email address]

Want to know a bit more about Yorkshire Water? Our website is full of
useful info, from how to apply for a water meter to planning your next
walk at one of our beautiful reservoirs - it’s all at yorkshirewater.com

Need to talk to us? For the best way to get in touch with us, go to
yorkshirewater.com/contact

Now the legal stuff! The information and any files sent as part of this
email are confidential, possibly legally privileged and for the
addressee’s attention only. If you’ve wrongly received this email, please
reply to it to let the sender know and delete it from your computer. Just
to confirm, this email isn’t a binding offer, acceptance, amendment,
waiver or any agreement or obligation – unless this is clearly stated in
the email.

We need to let you know that the content is subject to the legal notice at
yorkshirewater.com/about-us/our-policies/privacy-policy. Any disclosure,
copying, distribution or action taken based on its contents, is prohibited
and may be unlawful.

Yorkshire Water Services Limited
Registered Office Western House, Halifax Road, Bradford, BD6 2SZ
Registered in England and Wales No 2366682

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