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River Ribble polluted by sewage 543 times in 2025 - lasting 2,444 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Ribble in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Ribble GISBURN WWTW GISBN 111 659 100
United Utilities River Ribble SETTLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 59 446 99
United Utilities River Ribble HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE STW 35 433 100
United Utilities River Ribble GEORGE STREET CSO 331VJ 67 163 90.4
United Utilities River Ribble BLACKPOOL ROAD CSO 78 146 99.9
United Utilities River Ribble FAIRHAVEN PS 25 143 94.45
United Utilities River Ribble BANK PARADE CSO 39 125 100
United Utilities River Ribble HOLME ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 62 104 93.1
United Utilities River Ribble RIBCHESTER WWTW 7 48 98.75
United Utilities River Ribble WOLSELEY ROAD CSO 3 37 99.9
United Utilities River Ribble PENNY BRIDGE CSO 31 36 100
United Utilities River Ribble BALMORAL DRIVE/NORTH ROAD CSO 3 25 99.4
United Utilities River Ribble BROOK CORNER CSO 8 23 97.4
United Utilities River Ribble FISHERGATE HILL CSO (CHAMBER C9) 3 20 52.5
United Utilities River Ribble WATERY LANE FORMER PS CSO 339DQ 2 14 70.3
United Utilities River Ribble FISHERGATE HILL CSO CHAMBER C8 3 13 60.8
United Utilities River Ribble VALLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION 3 1 100
United Utilities River Ribble HAWTHORN CRESCENT CSO 3 0 98.7
United Utilities River Ribble GILDERSLEETS LANE CSO 151VM 1 0 97.2
United Utilities River Ribble CUERDALE LANE CSO 401QM 0 0 99.6

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

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.

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