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South Ribble - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,794 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 106 hours , potential overflows 40 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in South Ribble so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 511 hours , 21 potential
Feb - 739 hours , 1 potential
Mar - 399 hours , 7 potential
Apr - 7 hours
May - 405 hours , 6 offline
Jun - 720 hours
Jul - 624 hours
Aug - 266 hours , 3 potential
Sept - 120 hours , 5 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Eccleston Bridge D/S CSO River Yarrow 129 2,580h 9m 0 h
United Utilities LONGTON WwTW Tarra Carr Gutter 49 473h 3m 1 h
United Utilities Park Hall CSO (12069) Syd Brook 38 261h 22m 3 h
United Utilities LEYLAND WwTW River Lostock 15 102h 30m -
United Utilities SCHOOL LANE CSO Bannister Brook 48 94h 58m 1 h
United Utilities CROSTON WwTW River Yarrow 12 52h 11m 0 h
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Yarrow) River Yarrow 12 43h 7m -
United Utilities Brook Lane PS Smithy Brook 10 27h 21m -
United Utilities Cowling Lane/Leyland Lane CSO River Lostock 18 26h 58m -
United Utilities Factory Lane CSO Boundary Brook Riv Ribble 6 25h 55m 8 h
United Utilities Ingleborough Way/Bow Lane CSO Bannister Brook 20 23h 2m -
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Chapel Brook) River Yarrow 21 20h 31m 2 h
United Utilities 74 Slater Lane (Leyland) CSO River Lostock 6 13h 6m -
United Utilities Preston Network Terminal Pumping Station (Site ID HOWCK) (PRE0125) Tidal River Ribble 4 7h 59m 3 h
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Syd Brook 7 7h 24m -
United Utilities Rear of No. 24 Bispham Avenue CSO River Lostock 7 6h 52m -
United Utilities GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO River Lostock 7 6h 18m -
United Utilities Behind 33 The Orchard CSO River Lostock 6 4h 48m -
United Utilities Cowling Farm CSO Clancutt Brook 3 4h 8m 77 h
United Utilities Clifford Avenue CSO Longton Brook 4 4h 6m -
United Utilities Leyland Lane (Seven Stars) CSO Bannister Brook 2 2h 12m -
United Utilities Blackmoor Road CSO New Reed Brook 8 1h 56m 10 h
United Utilities Turpin Green Lane CSO Bannister Brook 6 1h 40m -
United Utilities FOWLER LANE / CROSTON ROAD CSO River Lostock 3 0h 54m 24 h
United Utilities SOUTH PARK HALL / STOCKS LANE HESKIN CSO (123IK) Syd Brook 1 0h 48m -
United Utilities The Greenacres CSO Unnamed Of Mill Brook 1 0h 46m -
United Utilities Cop Lane CSO Of River Ribble 1 0h 24m -
United Utilities Valley Road PS River Ribble 0 0h 3 h
United Utilities Leyland Lane (Seven Stars) CSO Bannister Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Behind 33 The Orchard CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Preston Network Terminal Pumping Station (Site ID HOWCK) (PRE0125) Tidal River Ribble 0 0h -
United Utilities Eccleston Bridge D/S CSO River Yarrow 0 0h -
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Yarrow) River Yarrow 0 0h -
United Utilities Cowling Lane/Leyland Lane CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Valley Road PS River Ribble 0 0h -
United Utilities The Greenacres CSO Unnamed Of Mill Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Towngate/ Fox Lane CSO Cricketfield Brook Via Sws 0 0h 2 h
United Utilities GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Leadale Road CSO Bannister Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities SCHOOL LANE CSO Bannister Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities LEYLAND WwTW River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Outside No. 50 Bispham Avenue River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Chapel Brook) River Yarrow 0 0h -
United Utilities Leadale Road CSO Bannister Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Factory Lane CSO Boundary Brook Riv Ribble 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear of No. 24 Bispham Avenue CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Cop Lane CSO Of River Ribble 0 0h -
United Utilities Clifford Avenue CSO Longton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Fairfield Street CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities SOUTH PARK HALL / STOCKS LANE HESKIN CSO (123IK) Syd Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Blackmoor Road CSO New Reed Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Brook Lane PS Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Towngate/ Fox Lane CSO Cricketfield Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Turpin Green Lane CSO Bannister Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities CROSTON WwTW River Yarrow 0 0h -
United Utilities Ingleborough Way/Bow Lane CSO Bannister Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 74 Slater Lane (Leyland) CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Syd Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities FOWLER LANE / CROSTON ROAD CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities Fairfield Street CSO River Lostock 0 0h -
United Utilities LONGTON WwTW Tarra Carr Gutter 0 0h -
United Utilities Cowling Farm CSO Clancutt Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Outside No. 50 Bispham Avenue River Lostock 0 0h 6 h
United Utilities Park Hall CSO (12069) Syd Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Riverside Road CSO River Ribble 0 0h 1 h
United Utilities Riverside Road CSO River Ribble 0 0h -

Data Sources & Accuracy

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.