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Chorley - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,435 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 3,204 hours , potential overflows 88 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Chorley 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 - 1,083 hours , 11 potential
Feb - 330 hours , 48 potential
Mar - 1 hours , 792 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 717 offline
May - 38 hours , 206 offline
Jun - 87 hours , 4 offline
Jul - 9 hours , 6 offline
Aug - 31 hours , 0 potential
Sept - 501 hours , 16 potential
Oct - 307 hours , 3 potential
Nov - 937 hours , 3 potential
Dec - 1,107 hours , 3 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Withnell Fold PS Kyln Clough, R Lostock 66 648 h 7m -
United Utilities Near Harrison's Farm CSO River Douglas 42 461 h 2m -
United Utilities Chorley WwTW River Yarrow 27 387 h 55m 48 h
United Utilities Withnell Fold PS Kyln Clough, R Lostock 24 315 h 30m -
United Utilities Near Harrison's Farm CSO River Douglas 19 279 h 59m -
United Utilities Coppull New Road/Butterworth Brow CSO River Yarrow 59 271 h 36m 9 h
United Utilities Abbey Village Pumping Station (12001) (CHR0080) River Roddlesworth 36 240 h 6m -
United Utilities Lodge Bank PS Brinscall Brook 16 216 h 6m -
United Utilities Chorley Lower Works PS River Yarrow 38 192 h 15m -
United Utilities Coppull New Road/Butterworth Brow CSO River Yarrow 22 174 h 6m 0 h
United Utilities O/S 8 HARDY DRIVE CSO River Chor 72 130 h 20m 38 h
United Utilities Adjacent Duxbury Mill Pumping Station Combined Sewer Overflow (CHR0024) River Yarrow 50 123 h 28m -
United Utilities Mavis Drive CSO Clancutt Brook 7 98 h 44m 15 h
United Utilities Abbey Village Pumping Station (12001) (CHR0080) River Roddlesworth 14 98 h 26m -
United Utilities Lodge Bank PS Brinscall Brook 17 91 h 10m -
United Utilities Earls Way CSO Chapel Brook 39 87 h 24m 0 h
United Utilities Chorley Lower Works PS River Yarrow 11 73 h 31m -
United Utilities O/S 8 HARDY DRIVE CSO River Chor 18 67 h 46m 11 h
United Utilities Cowling Brow CSO Black Brook 40 60 h 30m -
United Utilities Lancaster Lane CSO Mill Brook 33 58 h 4m 0 h
United Utilities Adjacent Duxbury Mill Pumping Station Combined Sewer Overflow (CHR0024) River Yarrow 14 46 h 48m -
United Utilities Clover Road/Butterworth Brow CSO Sws To River Yarrow 23 35 h 27m -
United Utilities Earls Way CSO Chapel Brook 11 35 h 18m 0 h
United Utilities Chorley WwTW River Yarrow 4 30 h 2m -
United Utilities Off Bridge Street PS Kenyon Brook 4 27 h 19m -
United Utilities Hewlett Avenue CSO Tanyard Brook 17 25 h 18m 48 h
United Utilities Lydd Grove PS River Chor 8 19 h 2m -
United Utilities Eaves Green Brook CSO River Yarrow 10 17 h 34m 0 h
United Utilities Kem Mill Lane CSO River Lostock 6 17 h 10 h
United Utilities Grimeford Lane PS River Douglas 3 15 h 58m 3,043 h
United Utilities Baganley Froom CSO Black Brook River Yarrow 9 12 h -
United Utilities Lancaster Lane CSO Mill Brook 9 10 h 16m -
United Utilities Moor Road/Eaves Green Road CSO River Yarrow 19 9 h 42m 9 h
United Utilities 96 COLLINGWOOD ROAD CSO Clvrted River Chor 10 9 h 28m 0 h
United Utilities Cowling Brow CSO Black Brook 5 8 h 54m -
United Utilities Clover Road/Butterworth Brow CSO Sws To River Yarrow 8 8 h 17m -
United Utilities Common Bank Lane CSO River Chor Diversion Channel 2 8 h 2m -
United Utilities Eaves Green Road CSO River Yarrow 18 6 h 34m 11 h
United Utilities Clover Road PS River Yarrow 3 6 h 19m -
United Utilities Parklands CSO River Chor River Yarrow 19 5 h 16m -
United Utilities Baganley Froom CSO Black Brook River Yarrow 3 1 h 24m -
United Utilities Eaves Green Road CSO River Yarrow 2 1 h 4m -
United Utilities Clover Road PS River Yarrow 1 0 h 43m -
United Utilities Moor Road/Eaves Green Road CSO River Yarrow 1 0 h 36m -
United Utilities Eaves Green Brook CSO River Yarrow 1 0 h 28m -
United Utilities Limbrick Pumping Station (12024) (CHR0030) River Yarrow 1 0 h 22m -
United Utilities Limbrick Pumping Station (12024) (CHR0030) River Yarrow 1 0 h 7m 0 h
United Utilities Parklands CSO River Chor River Yarrow 2 0 h 4m 0 h
United Utilities Duxbury Mill Farm PS River Yarrow 0 0 h -
United Utilities Heapey CSO Black Brook, R Yarrow 0 0 h -
United Utilities Mavis Drive CSO Clancutt Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Common Bank Lane CSO River Chor Diversion Channel 0 0 h -
United Utilities FRIDAY STREET CSO River Chor 0 0 h 0 h
United Utilities Heapey CSO Black Brook, R Yarrow 0 0 h 9 h
United Utilities Duxbury Mill Farm PS River Yarrow 0 0 h -
United Utilities 96 COLLINGWOOD ROAD CSO Clvrted River Chor 0 0 h -
United Utilities Glencroft PS Ransnap Brook 0 0 h 33 h
United Utilities Off Bridge Street PS Kenyon Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Grimeford Lane PS River Douglas 0 0 h -
United Utilities Glencroft PS Ransnap Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities FRIDAY STREET CSO River Chor 0 0 h -
United Utilities Kem Mill Lane CSO River Lostock 0 0 h -
United Utilities Lydd Grove PS River Chor 0 0 h -

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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