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Ribble Valley

Polluted by sewage 2,172 times in 2025 lasting 14,597 hours - That's 1.69 years!

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Live data for Ribble Valley in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 4,488 hours of sewage overflows, from 107 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Ribble Valley in 2025

44 Sites polluted by United Utilities
2,172 sewage dumps
14,597 hours duration
That's 1.69 years. On average 6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ribble Valley 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 Barton Brook BARTON WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 147 2,207 99.6
United Utilities Bashall Brook WADDINGTON WWTW 145 1,935 100
United Utilities River Calder BILLINGTON WWTW 124 1,551 100
United Utilities Dean Brook HURST GREEN WWTW 143 1,363 100
United Utilities River Calder WHALLEY WASTEWATER TREAMENT WORKS 91 1,006 100
United Utilities Barrow Clough/Pendleton Brook CLITHEROE WWTW 78 700 99.8
United Utilities River Ribble GISBURN WWTW GISBN 111 659 100
United Utilities Dinckley Brook MH 63 EAST END OF COPSTER GREEN CSO 106 523 99.5
United Utilities River Darwin FIELD EAST OF RIVER DARWIN CSO 56 473 99.5
United Utilities Wheatley Beck, River Ribble STIRK HOUSE HOTEL WWPS 46 416 99.3
United Utilities River Calder RIDDING LANE CSO (342X5) 50 372 79.1
United Utilities Showley Brook WILPSHIRE WWTW (WILPS) 69 372 99.7
United Utilities River Darwen HENNEL LANE CSO 43 317 99.8
United Utilities River Hodder SLAIDBURN WWTW 27 272 98
United Utilities Woodplumpton Brook LOWER TABLEY PUMPING STATION 46 254 80.9
United Utilities River Ribble Estuary WALTON-LE-DALE STW 28 232 100
United Utilities Mellor Brook LOWER BRUNDHURST FARM CSO 68 199 100
United Utilities Many Brooks GREGSON LANE AREA CSO 401WN 88 190 99.6
United Utilities Un River Calder WHITTAMS FARM CSO 342XW 89 188 99.6
United Utilities West Bradford Brook WEST BRADFORD PS 28 169 99.7
United Utilities River Ribble/West Clough Brook GRINDLETON WWTW 20 166 99.8
United Utilities Savick Brook SHAROE GREEN HOSPITAL CSO 333JK 82 155 97.9
United Utilities Stream Bushburn Brook PETRE ARMS ROUNDABOUT CSO 15 121 100
United Utilities Waddington Brook SPRING GARDENS WADDINGTON CSO 48 89 99.5
United Utilities Chipping Brook CHIPPING STW 14 86 100
United Utilities Bushburn Brook SOUTH OF OLD LANGHO RD CSO 8 78 100
United Utilities Boundary Brook CAUSEY WAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 22 70 92.5
United Utilities Arley Brook PRESTON NEW ROAD 36 59 99.1
United Utilities Hennel Brook, River Darwin DUDDLE LANE CSO 8 50 99.9
United Utilities Savick Brook SHAROE GREEN LANE CSO 33034 23 43 99.9
United Utilities Savick Brook Rvr Ribble COW HILL CLARKSONS FOLD CSO 33100 4 38 100
United Utilities Chipping Brook ST MARYS CHURCH (CHIPPING) CSO 36 35 99.2
United Utilities Culverted Grindleton Brook REAR OF NO.4 RIBBLE AVENUE CSO 30 28 99.9
United Utilities Hole Brook BLACKBURN WWTW 19 27 98.6
United Utilities River Lostock REAR OF LUNAR CARAVANS 15 22 99.6
United Utilities Savick Brook LONGRIDGE CSO 343FT 12 22 96.9
United Utilities Dinckley Brook WEST OF DEWHURST FARM CSO 341RS 32 22 99.7
United Utilities River Hodder SLAIDBURN WW NTWK PUMPING STATION 10 17 100
United Utilities Savick Brook BLACK BULL MH C1 CSO 331EQ 13 16 92
United Utilities River Lostock FAIRFIELD STREET CSO 3 10 100
United Utilities River Darwen CANN BRIDGE STREET CSO 40042 16 9 98.7
United Utilities Cockshott Bk Trb R Darwen BROWNEDGE LANE CSO 401GR 2 6 100
United Utilities Unknown COPSTER GREEN SEWER EJE 1 6 77.6
United Utilities River Lostock MH Y6 HAVELOCK ROAD CSO 120 0 95.4
United Utilities River Ribble CUERDALE LANE CSO 401QM 0 0 99.6
United Utilities Tun Brook GRIMSARGH CSO 333LG 0 0 96.3

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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