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Burnley was polluted by sewage 1,347 times in 2023
lasting 11,696 hours - that's 1.35 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Burnley in 2023

16 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,347 sewage dumps
11,696 h duration

That's 1.35 years! On average 3.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Burnley

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Burnley 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 23 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	Green Brook	STOCKBRIDGE ROAD CSO (BUR0038)	183	3,290	96.6
United Utilities	River Calder	BURNLEY STW	159	2,556	99.2
United Utilities	Culverted Pendle Water	134 BURNLEY ROAD CSO	78	1,754	76.6
United Utilities	River Calder	ALTHAM OUTFALL (FENNYFOLD) CSO	153	1,381	79.3
United Utilities	Pendle Water	BRIERFIELD SSO	147	997	100
United Utilities	Pendle Water	LINDRED ROAD CSO	116	544	98.6
United Utilities	River Calder	HONEY HOLME LANE CSO	85	334	100
United Utilities	River Calder	INSKIP STREET (082AK) CSO	87	206	100
United Utilities	Pendle Water	TIMBER STREET CSO 32021	68	205	83.7
United Utilities	River Calder	OPP 76 BURNLEY ROAD CSO	88	131	96.2
United Utilities	Limy Water	92 BURNLEY ROAD CSO 081HP	29	104	100
United Utilities	River Calder	ADJACENT TO PADIHAM LEISURE CENTRE	43	102	92.2
United Utilities	River Calder	STATION ROAD (PALIHAM) CSO	72	49	94.4
United Utilities	Dean Clough River Calder	SLADE LANE CSO	24	33	100
United Utilities	River Calder	BROOKLANDS ROAD/TODMORDEN ROAD CSO	14	4	100
United Utilities	River Calder	PARK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	0	100
United Utilities	River Burn	NE AREA SEWER	0	0	0
United Utilities	River Calder	LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO (088NF)	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Calder	WATERBARN STREET/BARDEN LANE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Calder	SHUTTLEWORTH STCALDER ST CSO	0	0	96.9
United Utilities	Pendle Water Via Culvert	SACKVILLE ST MONTAGUE ST CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Green Brook	LEVANT MILL FOOTBRIDGE CSO (O82CV)	0	0	100
United Utilities	Sweet Clough Green Brook	IN FRONT OF NO.19 BEAR STREET CSO	0	0	27

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.

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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