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Polluted by sewage 1,192 times in 2024 lasting 7,348 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:15 AM) there has been 1,786 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for South Ribble, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Ribble in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.
Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 25 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Tarra Carr Gutter | LONGTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 149 | 1,973 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Yarrow | ECCLESTONE BRIDGE CSO 12065 | 86 | 1,355 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | River Yarrow | CROSTON WWTW CRSTN | 79 | 614 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Clancutt Brook | COWLING FARM CSO | 44 | 601 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | LEYLAND WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS | 89 | 578 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | COWLING LANE LEYLAND LANE CSO 401PW | 114 | 354 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Bannister Brook | SCHOOL LANE CSO | 125 | 292 | 97.6 |
| United Utilities | Unnamed Syd Brook | BROOK LANE PUMPING STATION | 31 | 251 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Longton Brook | CLIFFORD AVENUE CSO | 39 | 239 | 94.3 |
| United Utilities | River Yarrow | 39 PARK AVENUE CSO | 85 | 226 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Syd Brook | ROBIN HOOD PUMPING STATION | 32 | 158 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | 74 SLATER LANE (LEYLAND) CSO | 41 | 130 | 98.5 |
| United Utilities | Bannister Brook | INGLEBROUGH WAY BOW LANE CSO 40040 | 50 | 124 | 13.3 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | BEHIND 33 THE ORCHARD CSO 123KF | 21 | 92 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO | 44 | 83 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | REAR 24 BISPHAM AVENUE CSO | 29 | 76 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Unnamed Of Mill Brook | THE GREENACRES CSO | 23 | 56 | 97.4 |
| United Utilities | New Reed Brook | BLACKMOOR ROAD CSO | 45 | 47 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Bannister Brook | LEYLAND LANE (SEVEN STARS) CSO | 20 | 40 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | FOWLER LANE/CROSTON ROAD CSO | 12 | 26 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Of River Ribble | COP LANE CSO | 5 | 9 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Bannister Brook | TURPIN GREEN LANE CSO | 20 | 8 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | VALLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION | 4 | 3 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Cricketfield Brook Via Sws | TOWNGATE/FOX LANE CSO | 5 | 3 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Lostock | O/S 50 BISPHAM AVE | 0 | 0 | 94.4 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.
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