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Totals for Blackburn in 2022

30 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,072 sewage dumps
3,979 h duration

That's 5.53 months. On average 2.9 times a day

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Waterways in Blackburn

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blackburn in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	River Blakewater	PHILIPS ROAD CSO	85	1,375	100
United Utilities	Culvert Culvert St	MERCHANTS LANDING CULVERT ST CSO	78	861	94.6
United Utilities	River Blakewater V Sws	PHILIPS ROAD CSO (052LO)	127	296	100
United Utilities	River Darwen	BOLTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	95	274	73.85
United Utilities	River Blakewater	ADDISON CLOSE CSO	77	216	99.2
United Utilities	River Blakewater	APPLEBY SREETT CSO	73	215	96.3
United Utilities	River Blakewater	LOWER AUDLEY CSO	47	127	97.6
United Utilities	Leeds/Liverpool Canal	INFIRMARY STREET CSO 05050	13	73	100
United Utilities	Clvrt'D Section Knuzden Brook	ACCRINGTON ROAD CSO	53	72	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	NEW MILL STREET CSO	14	72	99.9
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WITTON TANKS CSO	42	68	100
United Utilities	Queens Park Culvert	DICKENS STREET CSO	39	62	99.9
United Utilities	River Blakewater	THWAITES BREWERY YARD	37	53	99.9
United Utilities	Little Harwood Brook	WHALLEY OLD RD/PROVIDENCE ST CSO	68	45	92.9
United Utilities	River Darwen	WELLINGTON ROAD CSO	27	44	57.1
United Utilities	Queens Park Culvert Via Sws	CUMBERLAND STREET CSO	40	39	99.55
United Utilities	River Blakewater	APPLE STREET CSO	42	26	100
United Utilities	Queens Park Culvert	QUEENS PARK ROAD CSO	24	21	99.9
United Utilities	River Blakewater	ROLLESTON ROAD CSO	17	11	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	GATE STREET CSO	32	10	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	BEECHWOOD ROAD CSO	12	6	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater Via Sws	WHALLEY RANGE/MILLHAM STREET CSO	6	0	100
United Utilities	River Darwen	CHERRY TREE/FENISCOWLES CSO	5	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	LARK HILL/BROOKHOUSE LANE CSO	5	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	BROWNHILL DRIVE CSO	4	0	98.2
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WHALLEY NEW ROAD CSO	4	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	GRIMSHAW PARK CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	PRINGLE STREET CSO	2	0	99.5
United Utilities	River Blakewater	MANOR ROAD CSO (052ER)	2	0	99.7
United Utilities	River Blakewater	NOTRE DAME GARDENS CSO	1	0	95.5
United Utilities	River Blakewater	293 PRESTON OLD ROAD CSO (052M0)	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	RAMSGREAVE DRIVE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	FIELDEN STREET CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Culvert River Darwen	SHARPLES STREET CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Blakewater	DAISY LANE CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Blakewater	DUKES BROW CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Darwen	293 PRESTON OLD ROAD CSO (052M0)	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WHALLEY RANGE/GRACE STREET CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Blakewater	WHALLEY RANGE / WESLEY STREET CSO	0	0	98
United Utilities	River Blakewater	GREAT BOLTON STREET CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Culvert Pringle St	BACK QUEENS PARK RD	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Darwen	AQUEDUCT ROAD CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Darwen	GORSE ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	0
United Utilities	Arley Brook	REVIDGE RD/PRESTON NEW RD SSO	0	0	0

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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 polluted by sewage 1,072 times in 2022 - lasting 3,979 hours

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