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South Ribble was polluted by sewage 1,443 times in 2023
lasting 9,650 hours - that's 1.12 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for South Ribble in 2023

27 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,443 sewage dumps
9,650 h duration

That's 1.12 years! On average 4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in South Ribble

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Ribble in 2023. 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 1 of the total 29 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Tarra Carr Gutter	LONGTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	146	2,063	100
United Utilities	River Yarrow	ECCLESTONE BRIDGE CSO 12065	109	1,773	100
United Utilities	Clancutt Brook	COWLING FARM CSO	88	1,354	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	LEYLAND WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS	104	924	98.8
United Utilities	River Yarrow	CROSTON WWTW CRSTN	89	703	93.6
United Utilities	River Lostock	COWLING LANE LEYLAND LANE CSO 401PW	103	409	100
United Utilities	Bannister Brook	SCHOOL LANE CSO	130	380	99.7
United Utilities	Unnamed Syd Brook	BROOK LANE PUMPING STATION	51	361	100
United Utilities	River Yarrow	39 PARK AVENUE CSO	109	283	100
United Utilities	Longton Brook	CLIFFORD AVENUE WW NTWK PS	42	277	100
United Utilities	Boundary Brook Riv Ribble	FACTORY LANE CSO	38	176	98.3
United Utilities	Syd Brook	ROBIN HOOD PUMPING STATION	51	174	99.8
United Utilities	Bannister Brook	INGLEBROUGH WAY BOW LANE CSO 40040	79	170	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	74 SLATER LANE (LEYLAND) CSO	50	143	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	BEHIND 33 THE ORCHARD CSO 123KF	34	94	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO	38	74	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	FOWLER LANE/CROSTON ROAD CSO	20	60	100
United Utilities	New Reed Brook	BLACKMOOR ROAD CSO	60	55	100
United Utilities	Unnamed Of Mill Brook	THE GREENACRES CSO	13	47	100
United Utilities	Bannister Brook	LEYLAND LANE (SEVEN STARS) CSO	18	31	100
United Utilities	Of River Ribble	COP LANE CSO	5	28	100
United Utilities	Bannister Brook	TURPIN GREEN LANE CSO	35	20	95.6
United Utilities	River Ribble	VALLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION	8	15	100
United Utilities	Bannister Brook	LEADALE ROAD CSO 402CQ	11	13	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	RIVERSIDE ROAD CSO	3	10	100
United Utilities	Cricketfield Brook Via Sws	TOWNGATE/FOX LANE CSO	8	3	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	O/S 50 BISPHAM AVE	1	0	100
United Utilities	River Lostock	REAR 24 BISPHAM AVENUE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Syd Brook	SOUTH PARK HALL/STOCKS LANE HESKIN	0	0	0

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. 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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