Top of the Poops | Constituency | Blackburn| Polluted by United Utilities

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Totals for Blackburn in 2023

39 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,910 sewage dumps
11,512 h duration

That's 1.33 years! On average 5.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Blackburn

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blackburn in 2023. 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 44 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	River Blakewater	FIELDEN STREET CSO	154	3,366	98
United Utilities	River Blakewater	DAISY LANE CSO	152	1,973	97.4
United Utilities	Culvert River Darwen	SHARPLES STREET CSO	206	828	99.7
United Utilities	River Darwen	AQUEDUCT ROAD CSO	90	789	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	PHILIPS ROAD CSO	72	738	97.2
United Utilities	River Blakewater	APPLEBY SREETT CSO	94	527	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	NEW MILL STREET CSO	36	511	87.3
United Utilities	River Blakewater	LOWER AUDLEY CSO	131	429	100
United Utilities	Culvert Culvert St	MERCHANTS LANDING CULVERT ST CSO	23	348	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater V Sws	PHILIPS ROAD CSO (052LO)	131	328	96.7
United Utilities	Queens Park Culvert Via Sws	CUMBERLAND STREET CSO	83	291	99.9
United Utilities	River Blakewater	THWAITES BREWERY YARD	77	223	99.9
United Utilities	Clvrt'D Section Knuzden Brook	ACCRINGTON ROAD CSO	70	156	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WITTON TANKS CSO	60	138	99.9
United Utilities	Leeds/Liverpool Canal	INFIRMARY STREET CSO 05050	16	135	100
United Utilities	River Darwen	GORSE ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	56	134	82.9
United Utilities	River Blakewater	ADDISON CLOSE CSO	79	104	100
United Utilities	Queens Park Culvert	QUEENS PARK ROAD CSO	48	104	98.8
United Utilities	River Blakewater	APPLE STREET CSO	35	100	97.9
United Utilities	Queens Park Culvert	DICKENS STREET CSO	26	92	100
United Utilities	Little Harwood Brook	WHALLEY OLD RD/PROVIDENCE ST CSO	89	87	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	GATE STREET CSO	42	25	100
United Utilities	River Darwen	BOLTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	22	19	99.2
United Utilities	River Blakewater	DUKES BROW CSO	20	14	97.2
United Utilities	River Blakewater	VICTORIA STREET CSO	33	8	100
United Utilities	River Darwen	CHERRY TREE WORKS SITE	9	7	100
United Utilities	Arley Brook	REVIDGE RD/PRESTON NEW RD SSO	10	7	94.6
United Utilities	River Blakewater	NOTRE DAME GARDENS CSO	5	5	97.9
United Utilities	River Darwen	WELLINGTON ROAD CSO	5	3	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	BROWNHILL DRIVE CSO	6	1	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WHALLEY RANGE/GRACE STREET CSO	8	1	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	BEECHWOOD ROAD CSO	3	1	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	PRINGLE STREET CSO	3	1	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater Via Sws	WHALLEY RANGE/MILLHAM STREET CSO	6	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	RAMSGREAVE DRIVE CSO	3	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	MANOR ROAD CSO (052ER)	4	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	GRIMSHAW PARK CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	River Darwen	293 PRESTON OLD ROAD CSO (052M0)	1	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WHALLEY NEW ROAD CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Culvert Pringle St	BACK QUEENS PARK RD	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Blakewater	GREAT BOLTON STREET CSO	0	0	99.7
United Utilities	River Blakewater	293 PRESTON OLD ROAD CSO (052M0)	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	LARK HILL/BROOKHOUSE LANE CSO	0	0	93.9
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WHALLEY RANGE / WESLEY STREET CSO	0	0	100

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. 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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Blackburn was polluted by sewage 1,910 times in 2023
lasting 11,512 hours - that's 1.33 years!
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39 Sites polluted by United Utilities

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Blackburn was polluted by sewage 1,910 times in 2023 lasting 11,512 hours - that's 1.33 years! - but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

39 Sites polluted by United Utilities

Pollution Summary 2023

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Blackburn was polluted by sewage 1,910 times in 2023
lasting 11,512 hours - that's 1.33 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more