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Polluted by sewage 925 times in 2024 lasting 3,339 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:30 AM) there has been 651 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Preston, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Preston in 2024. 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 2 of the total 37 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Savick Brook | SAVICK BROOK PUMPING STATION | 49 | 465 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Swill Brook Clvrt River Ribble | HALSBURY STREET CSO 331XR | 46 | 426 | 98.1 |
| United Utilities | Eaves Bk, Savick Bk | MANOR HOUSE LANE CSO 33037 | 41 | 394 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble Via Chain Culvert | MARSH LANE CSO PRE0021 | 137 | 301 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Eaves Brook | VICTORIA RD CSO 33023 | 83 | 252 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Savick Bk, Ribble Est | LEA GATE PUMPING STATION | 48 | 228 | 92.7 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | GEORGE STREET CSO 331VJ | 98 | 212 | 94.2 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | HOLME ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 71 | 193 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | BANK PARADE CSO | 54 | 166 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble Estuary | ST PAULS ROAD CSO | 64 | 165 | 95 |
| United Utilities | Eaves Bk, Savick Bk | CATTLE MARKET CSO | 13 | 146 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble Tidal Via Sws | RIBBLETON LANE CSO 33103 | 14 | 96 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Tidal River Ribble | PRESTON NETWORK TERMINAL PUMPING ST | 19 | 73 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | Eaves Brook Savick Brook | WATLING STREET ROAD CSO 33024 | 9 | 52 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Savick Brk Ribble Est | BANKSFIELD AVENUE CSO 33027 | 9 | 36 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | Swillbrook Clvrt R Ribble | ALBYN STREET EAST CSO 33102 | 5 | 32 | 86 |
| United Utilities | Swillbrook Culvert | FRENCHWOOD KNOLL CSO 331UX | 46 | 20 | 98.4 |
| United Utilities | Savick Brook Via Sws | 2 MILL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 7 | 18 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | WOLSELEY ROAD CSO | 4 | 17 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Chain Caul Culvert Into Ribble | WEST STRAND CSO CHAMBER C10 PRE0071 | 33 | 13 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble Via Storm Culvert | 18 DEEPDALE ROAD | 32 | 7 | 99.45 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | HAWTHORN CRESCENT CSO | 12 | 4 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Moore Brook Culvert | ST GEORGES ROAD CSO | 13 | 4 | 98.2 |
| United Utilities | Moor Brook Culvert | 208 DEEPDALE ROAD CSO | 10 | 2 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Chain Caul Culvert | POWIS ROAD CSO 332MG PRE0025 | 3 | 2 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Chain Caul Ward Storm | WATERY LANE DOUGLAS ST CSO PRE0110 | 3 | 2 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Clvrt Moor Brook Rvr Ribb | MOORBROOK STREET CSO 332F2 | 2 | 0 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | FISHERGATE HILL CSO CHAMBER C8 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 |
| United Utilities | Moorbrook Culvert -> River Ribble | WATERY LANE CSO SHAFT C1 PRE0093 | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Chain Caul Storm Culvert | WATERY LANE CSO PRE0108 | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Storm Culvert, Ribble | PERCY STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 97.8 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | FISHERGATE HILL CSO (CHAMBER C9) | 0 | 0 | 7.2 |
| United Utilities | Eaves Brook | 75 LOWER BANK ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Unamed Woodplumpton Brook | LIGHTFOOT LANE PS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Savick Brook | HASLAM PARK NORTH & SOUTH CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Storm Culvert Into R Ribble | LONDON ROAD | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble Tidal | DALE STREET CSO 331R7 | 0 | 0 | 98.1 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
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