Rossendale and Darwen polluted by sewage 1,514 times in 2022 - lasting 7,971 hours

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Totals for Rossendale and Darwen in 2022
47 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,514 sewage dumps
7,971 h duration
That's 11.07 months. On average 4.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rossendale and Darwen in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Darwen ANCHOR LANE CSO 124 2,582 44.5
United Utilities River Irwell ROSSENDALE WWTW 120 1,317 100
United Utilities River Irwell THE GLEN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 132 1,061 91.1
United Utilities River Irwell NEWCHURCH ROAD/BROOKS STREET CSO 105 513 100
United Utilities River Irwell BACUP ROAD/FALBARN FOLD CSO 77 460 100
United Utilities River Spodden WHITWORTH CSO 61 340 99.4
United Utilities River Irwell NEWCHURCH ROAD CSO (36013) 33 294 100
United Utilities Limy Water R Irwell BANK ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 60 198 100
United Utilities River Irwell 295 BACUP ROAD CSO 48 188 100
United Utilities Whitewell Brook 143 BURNLEY ROAD EAST CSO 20 117 100
United Utilities River Darwen CLARENCE STREET CSO 53 104 77.3
United Utilities Swinnel Brook HELMSHORE CARAVAN PARK CSO 44 104 98.7
United Utilities Eagley Brook BELMONT WWTW 6 98 100
United Utilities River Darwen HIGHER PERRY ST/BLACK LAUREL ST CSO 86 94 95.5
United Utilities Culverted Section River Darwen BALLE STREET HILTON STREET CSO 64 68 96.8
United Utilities River Irwell NEWCHURCH ROAD/WESLEY PLACE CSO 31 65 100
United Utilities River Darwen BALLE STREET HILTON STREET CSO 62 63 100
United Utilities River Ogden IRWELL VALE PS 14 50 100
United Utilities River Darwen ANYON STREET/LAUREL AVE CSO 57 31 100
United Utilities River Irwell HIGHFIELD ROAD CSO 16 27 98.3
United Utilities Quarlton Brook BROADHEAD ROAD CSO 051FX 17 22 100
United Utilities River Darwen COTTON HALL STREET CSO 53 19 96.8
United Utilities River Darwen SUDELL ROAD CSO 25 19 98.9
United Utilities River Irwell NEW HALL HEY ROAD CSO 11 18 100
United Utilities River Darwen GRIMSHAW STREET CSO 31 15 100
United Utilities River Irwell WATERBARN LANE CSO 9 15 100
United Utilities River Irwell BURNLEY ROAD BACUP CSO 6 13 96
United Utilities Clvrtd Section Of River Darwen RAILWAY ROAD/SOUTH STREET CSO 13 13 95.5
United Utilities River Darwen Via Sws HINDLE STREET CSO 28 10 100
United Utilities River Irwell BLACKWOOD ROAD CSO 3 10 97.8
United Utilities River Darwen KAY STREET CSO 25 5 100
United Utilities River Spodden STATION ROAD (WHITWORTH) CSO 3 3 100
United Utilities River Irwell NEWCHURCH ROAD BACUP CSO 8 3 100
United Utilities River Darwen REDEARTH ROAD/SUDELL ROAD CSO 14 2 100
United Utilities Kebbs Brook, Riv Darwen BOLTON ROAD/ASTLEY STREET CSO 13 2 100
United Utilities Unknown COWDE RD BR. 3 2 100
United Utilities River Irwell 709 BACUP ROAD CSO 2 1 100
United Utilities Whitewell Brook BURNLEY ROAD EAST/TOWNLEY ARMS CSO 2 1 97
United Utilities Whitewll Brook BURNLEY ROAD EAST/SHAWCLOUGH CSO 1 1 100
United Utilities River Irwell NEW HALL HEY BRIDGE CSO 4 0 100
United Utilities River Irwell SOUTH STREET/PICKUP STREET CSO 4 0 100
United Utilities Culverted Section River Darwen CHURCH STREET/PARLIAMENT STREET CSO 8 0 98.2
United Utilities River Darwen CRANBERRY LANE CSO 4 0 92
United Utilities River Irwell ROCKLIFFE ROAD/RIVER STREET CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities River Darwen WOODVALE FLATS CSO 8 0 100
United Utilities Culverted River Irwell WELLINGTON HOTEL CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Whitewell Brook BURNLEY RD E/BOOTH ST CSO 4 0 100
United Utilities River Spodden WHITWORTH SSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Limy Water Irwell BURNLEY RD/MIDDLEGATE CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Limy Water RUSHBED SSO 0 0 0
United Utilities River Irwell HAMMERTONSTREET/STANLEY STREET CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Gleave Clough Brook TONG LANE/REED STREET CSO 0 0 94.8
United Utilities River Darwen QUEENS ROAD (DARWEN) CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Whitewell Brook 876 BURNLEY RD EAST CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Darwen BELGRAVE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Irwell LEE ROAD CSO (369BA) 0 0 98.6
United Utilities Unknown BOOTH RD 0 0 0
United Utilities River Darwen SUDELLSIDE STREET 0 0 100
United Utilities River Darwen FOOTPATH NR CROSS ST CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Darwen 28 TYTHEBARN ST 0 0 0
United Utilities River Darwen DARWEN WWTW 0 0 0
United Utilities River Darwen VALE STREET 0 0 0
United Utilities Greave Clough Via Sws GREAVE CLOUGH DRIVE CSO 0 0 100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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