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Burnley - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,007 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,273 hours , potential overflows 48 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Burnley for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 673 hours , 43 potential
Feb - 16 hours , 1 offline
Mar - 2 hours , 4 offline
Apr - 2 hours , 41 offline
May - 39 hours , 591 offline
Jun - 66 hours , 581 offline
Jul - 22 hours , 3 offline
Aug - 6 hours , 0 offline
Sept - 345 hours , 3 potential
Oct - 268 hours , 0 potential
Nov - 222 hours , 0 potential
Dec - 340 hours , 0 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Clitheroe Road CSO Pendle Water 65 367h 44m 0 h
United Utilities BURNLEY WwTW River Calder 26 311h 7m -
United Utilities Crow Wood Farm CSO River Calder 52 181h 11m -
United Utilities Lindred Road CSO Pendle Water 29 142h 51m -
United Utilities OPP 76 BURNLEY ROAD CSO River Calder 71 132h 39m 3 h
United Utilities BURNLEY WwTW River Calder 17 124h 20m -
United Utilities Altham Outfall CSO River Calder 30 121h 38m -
United Utilities Crow Wood Farm CSO River Calder 17 79h 32m -
United Utilities INSKIP STREET CSO River Calder 38 74h 2m 24 h
United Utilities Clitheroe Road CSO Pendle Water 12 63h 58m -
United Utilities Honey Holme Lane CSO River Calder 15 50h 32m 39 h
United Utilities Altham Outfall CSO River Calder 14 40h 32m -
United Utilities Lanebottom WwTW Pig Hole Clough 13 38h 40m -
United Utilities Lindred Road CSO Pendle Water 8 38h 12m -
United Utilities Padiham Leisure Centre CSO River Calder 19 37h 47m 0 h
United Utilities OPP 76 BURNLEY ROAD CSO River Calder 15 32h 56m -
United Utilities 92 Burnley Road CSO Limy Water 8 25h 52m 20 h
United Utilities Station Road (Padiham) CSO River Calder 34 24h 56m 45 h
United Utilities INSKIP STREET CSO River Calder 13 21h 54m -
United Utilities SLADE LANE CSO Dean Clough River Calder 9 18h 50m -
United Utilities Timber Street CSO Pendle Water 13 18h 25m -
United Utilities Station Road (Padiham) CSO River Calder 12 14h 6m 1 h
United Utilities 92 Burnley Road CSO Limy Water 7 13h 4m 0 h
United Utilities BROOKLANDS ROAD / TODMORDEN ROAD CSO River Calder 5 11h 48m 3 h
United Utilities Lanebottom WwTW Pig Hole Clough 6 8h 24m -
United Utilities Honey Holme Lane CSO River Calder 4 5h 6m 0 h
United Utilities Bear Street CSO Sweet Clough Green Brook 5 4h 14m 0 h
United Utilities Timber Street CSO Pendle Water 3 1h 48m -
United Utilities Padiham Leisure Centre CSO River Calder 4 1h 20m -
United Utilities Park Road CSO River Calder 1 0h 4m -
United Utilities Levant Mill Footbridge CSO Green Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Sackville Street/Montague Street CSO Pendle Water Via Culvert 0 0h 1,154 h
United Utilities Waterbarn Street/Barden Lane Combined Sewer Overflow River Irwell 0 0h 0 h
United Utilities Thursby Road/Basnett Street River Burn 0 0h -
United Utilities SHUTTLEWORTH STREET / CALDER STREET CSO River Calder 0 0h -
United Utilities Bear Street CSO Sweet Clough Green Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities SLADE LANE CSO Dean Clough River Calder 0 0h -
United Utilities Waterbarn Street/Barden Lane Combined Sewer Overflow River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Stockbridge Road Burnley CSO Green Brook 0 0h 4 h
United Utilities SHUTTLEWORTH STREET / CALDER STREET CSO River Calder 0 0h 3 h
United Utilities BROOKLANDS ROAD / TODMORDEN ROAD CSO River Calder 0 0h -
United Utilities 134 Burnley Road CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Thursby Road/Basnett Street River Burn 0 0h -
United Utilities Liverpool Road (Burnley) CSO River Calder 0 0h -
United Utilities Sackville Street/Montague Street CSO Pendle Water Via Culvert 0 0h -
United Utilities Liverpool Road (Burnley) CSO River Calder 0 0h 19 h
United Utilities Stockbridge Road Burnley CSO Green Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Levant Mill Footbridge CSO Green Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Park Road CSO River Calder 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.