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South Ribble - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 7,863 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,283 hours , potential overflows 577 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in South Ribble for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,634 hours , 36 potential
Feb - 76 hours , 1 offline
Mar - 48 hours , 0 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 41 offline
May - 91 hours , 1 potential
Jun - 393 hours , 416 potential
Jul - 33 hours , 26 potential
Aug - 25 hours , 40 potential
Sept - 868 hours , 31 potential
Oct - 637 hours , 5 potential
Nov - 2,167 hours , 7 potential
Dec - 1,885 hours , 10 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Eccleston Bridge D/S CSO River Yarrow 90 1,661 h 8m -
United Utilities LONGTON WwTW Tarra Carr Gutter 94 1,252 h 6m 0 h
United Utilities Eccleston Bridge D/S CSO River Yarrow 45 996 h 25m -
United Utilities Park Hall CSO (12069) Syd Brook 70 447 h 4m -
United Utilities LONGTON WwTW Tarra Carr Gutter 26 434 h 42m 2 h
United Utilities Park Hall CSO (12069) Syd Brook 27 384 h 45m -
United Utilities LEYLAND WwTW River Lostock 37 274 h 49m 72 h
United Utilities Cowling Farm CSO Clancutt Brook 20 271 h 42m 0 h
United Utilities Cowling Farm CSO Clancutt Brook 14 165 h 49m 0 h
United Utilities CROSTON WwTW River Yarrow 18 158 h 4m 4 h
United Utilities SCHOOL LANE CSO Bannister Brook 76 144 h 26m 38 h
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Chapel Brook) River Yarrow 35 126 h 30m 1,003 h
United Utilities LEYLAND WwTW River Lostock 16 124 h 36m 0 h
United Utilities Brook Lane PS Smithy Brook 18 116 h 59m -
United Utilities Brook Lane PS Smithy Brook 13 102 h 44m -
United Utilities Rear of No. 24 Bispham Avenue CSO River Lostock 29 97 h 30m 64 h
United Utilities Clifford Avenue CSO Longton Brook 15 96 h 48m 5 h
United Utilities 74 Slater Lane (Leyland) CSO River Lostock 28 84 h 46m -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Syd Brook 23 77 h 52m 0 h
United Utilities Cowling Lane/Leyland Lane CSO River Lostock 27 74 h 48m 0 h
United Utilities Ingleborough Way/Bow Lane CSO Bannister Brook 37 72 h 36m 2 h
United Utilities Factory Lane CSO Boundary Brook Riv Ribble 13 71 h 36m 7 h
United Utilities GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO River Lostock 26 54 h 2m 0 h
United Utilities CROSTON WwTW River Yarrow 11 50 h 19m 0 h
United Utilities SCHOOL LANE CSO Bannister Brook 15 49 h 53m 0 h
United Utilities Blackmoor Road CSO New Reed Brook 16 48 h 32m 27 h
United Utilities Behind 33 The Orchard CSO River Lostock 12 47 h 14m 0 h
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Syd Brook 8 41 h 5m -
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Yarrow) River Yarrow 14 36 h 19m 0 h
United Utilities The Greenacres CSO Unnamed Of Mill Brook 13 33 h 48m 0 h
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Chapel Brook) River Yarrow 11 33 h 28m 58 h
United Utilities Preston Network Terminal Pumping Station (Site ID HOWCK) (PRE0125) Tidal River Ribble 10 32 h 36m 99 h
United Utilities FOWLER LANE / CROSTON ROAD CSO River Lostock 9 23 h 22m 0 h
United Utilities Cowling Lane/Leyland Lane CSO River Lostock 15 17 h 48m -
United Utilities Cop Lane CSO Of River Ribble 5 16 h 30m -
United Utilities Leyland Lane (Seven Stars) CSO Bannister Brook 14 13 h 34m 54 h
United Utilities Rear of No. 24 Bispham Avenue CSO River Lostock 8 12 h 58m -
United Utilities Factory Lane CSO Boundary Brook Riv Ribble 3 12 h 55m -
United Utilities SOUTH PARK HALL / STOCKS LANE HESKIN CSO (123IK) Syd Brook 8 11 h 58m -
United Utilities 74 Slater Lane (Leyland) CSO River Lostock 7 11 h 44m -
United Utilities Ingleborough Way/Bow Lane CSO Bannister Brook 10 11 h 16m -
United Utilities Blackmoor Road CSO New Reed Brook 7 10 h 59m 25 h
United Utilities Turpin Green Lane CSO Bannister Brook 12 8 h 25m -
United Utilities Fairfield Street CSO River Lostock 3 6 h 52m -
United Utilities Clifford Avenue CSO Longton Brook 5 6 h 24m -
United Utilities Leadale Road CSO Bannister Brook 3 6 h 18m 8 h
United Utilities Behind 33 The Orchard CSO River Lostock 5 5 h 18m -
United Utilities GOLDEN HILL LANE CSO River Lostock 5 4 h 20m -
United Utilities Park Avenue CSO (to Yarrow) River Yarrow 7 4 h 6m -
United Utilities Towngate/ Fox Lane CSO Cricketfield Brook Via Sws 7 2 h 54m -
United Utilities Valley Road PS River Ribble 6 2 h 49m 1 h
United Utilities SOUTH PARK HALL / STOCKS LANE HESKIN CSO (123IK) Syd Brook 4 2 h 32m -
United Utilities Leyland Lane (Seven Stars) CSO Bannister Brook 4 2 h 22m -
United Utilities Outside No. 50 Bispham Avenue River Lostock 1 1 h 20m 4 h
United Utilities Preston Network Terminal Pumping Station (Site ID HOWCK) (PRE0125) Tidal River Ribble 2 0 h 40m -
United Utilities Turpin Green Lane CSO Bannister Brook 1 0 h 32m -
United Utilities Riverside Road CSO River Ribble 2 0 h 26m 373 h
United Utilities Valley Road PS River Ribble 0 0 h -
United Utilities Towngate/ Fox Lane CSO Cricketfield Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities The Greenacres CSO Unnamed Of Mill Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Cop Lane CSO Of River Ribble 0 0 h -
United Utilities Leadale Road CSO Bannister Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities FOWLER LANE / CROSTON ROAD CSO River Lostock 0 0 h -
United Utilities Fairfield Street CSO River Lostock 0 0 h -
United Utilities Outside No. 50 Bispham Avenue River Lostock 0 0 h -
United Utilities Riverside Road CSO River Ribble 0 0 h -

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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