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South Ribble

Polluted by sewage 900 times in 2025 lasting 5,668 hours

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Live data for South Ribble in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,738 hours of sewage overflows, from 66 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for South Ribble in 2025

26 Sites polluted by United Utilities
900 sewage dumps
5,668 hours duration
That's 7.87 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Ribble 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 River Yarrow ECCLESTONE BRIDGE CSO 12065 106 1,966 100
United Utilities Tarra Carr Gutter LONGTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 121 1,687 100
United Utilities River Lostock LEYLAND WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 56 399 100
United Utilities Unnamed Syd Brook BROOK LANE PUMPING STATION 31 219 100
United Utilities River Yarrow CROSTON WWTW CRSTN 33 211 100
United Utilities Bannister Brook SCHOOL LANE CSO 91 186 98.4
United Utilities River Yarrow 39 PARK AVENUE CSO 73 154 99.85
United Utilities Syd Brook ROBIN HOOD PUMPING STATION 29 116 99.8
United Utilities Longton Brook CLIFFORD AVENUE CSO 21 101 99.1
United Utilities River Lostock 74 SLATER LANE (LEYLAND) CSO 34 95 99.9
United Utilities River Lostock REAR 24 BISPHAM AVENUE CSO 40 90 97.5
United Utilities River Lostock COWLING LANE LEYLAND LANE CSO 401PW 40 86 95.1
United Utilities Bannister Brook INGLEBROUGH WAY BOW LANE CSO 40040 51 85 99.8
United Utilities River Lostock GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO 32 56 99.9
United Utilities River Lostock BEHIND 33 THE ORCHARD CSO 123KF 21 53 98
United Utilities Unnamed Of Mill Brook THE GREENACRES CSO 13 33 99.8
United Utilities New Reed Brook BLACKMOOR ROAD CSO 37 31 100
United Utilities River Lostock FOWLER LANE/CROSTON ROAD CSO 9 22 100
United Utilities Bannister Brook LEYLAND LANE (SEVEN STARS) CSO 21 18 99.2
United Utilities Of River Ribble COP LANE CSO 1 15 100
United Utilities Syd Brook SOUTH PARK HALL/STOCKS LANE HESKIN 8 11 82.9
United Utilities Bannister Brook TURPIN GREEN LANE CSO 15 10 99.9
United Utilities Bannister Brook LEADALE ROAD CSO 402CQ 7 7 95
United Utilities Cricketfield Brook Via Sws TOWNGATE/FOX LANE CSO 6 2 96.3
United Utilities River Ribble VALLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION 3 1 100
United Utilities River Lostock O/S 50 BISPHAM AVE 1 1 93.6

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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