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Fylde

Polluted by sewage 730 times in 2025 lasting 2,914 hours

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Live data for Fylde in 2026

So far this year (as of 11 Aug 2026, 21:15) there has been 872 hours of sewage overflows, from 64 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Fylde in 2025

23 Sites polluted by United Utilities
730 sewage dumps
2,914 hours duration
That's 4.05 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Fylde in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Pool Stream NAZE LANE PUMPING STATION 77 803 99.5
United Utilities River Ribble Estuary PRESTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 43 371 99.5
United Utilities Main Dyke WEETON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 176 288 100
United Utilities Wyre Estuary SKIPPOOL PUMPING STATION 45 270 99.7
United Utilities Wrea Brook LYTHAM ROAD 57 227 100
United Utilities Main Dyke SINGLETON PS 32 167 98.8
United Utilities River Ribble FAIRHAVEN PS 25 143 94.45
United Utilities Wrongway Brook STATION ROAD CSO 19084 22 139 98.3
United Utilities Dow Brook Frecklton Pl NEAR SHIP INN CSO 32 135 99.8
United Utilities Thistleton Brook ELSWICK STW 65 107 99.3
United Utilities Liggard Brook LYTHAM PUMPING STATION 28 56 100
United Utilities Carr Brook, Of Dow Brook KIRKHAM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 18 54 100
United Utilities Dow Brook DOW BRIDGE CSO 19080 7 33 100
United Utilities Savick Brook CLIFTON PUMPING STATION 17 30 100
United Utilities River Ribble BROOK CORNER CSO 8 23 97.4
United Utilities Main Dyke River Wyre CHAIN LANE PUMPING STATION 19046 30 21 99.8
United Utilities Horsebridge Dyke RAVENSWOOD CSO 52568 15 11 100
United Utilities Main Dyke HOLTS LANE DETENTION TANK 5 10 100
United Utilities Liggard Brook BALLAM ROAD PUMPING STATION 7 6 100
United Utilities Carr Brook MOWBRECK WW NTWK PS 3 3 99.9
United Utilities Carr Brook SCHOOL LANE CSO 192QK 7 3 100
United Utilities Main Dyke IN FIELD POULTON M.H. 292 CSO 10 2 100
United Utilities Main Dyke Wyre Estuary HIGHCROSS ROAD CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Main Dyke BACK OF WOODLAND DRIVE CSO 0 0 94
United Utilities Horsebridge Dyke, Main BLACKPOOL OLD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Horse Bridge Dyke CHILTERN AVENUE CSO 0 0 96.7
United Utilities Irish Sea SANDGATE PUMPING STATION NO 2 0 0 100
United Utilities Unnamed Laggard Brook SMITHY LANE PUMPING STATION 19003 0 0 99.2

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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