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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Accrington 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 place 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 Hyndburn | ACCRINGTON SSO | 74 | 352 | 97.8 |
| United Utilities | White Ash Brook | OSWALDTWISTLE CSO | 54 | 176 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Clough Brook | HUNCOAT PS | 17 | 45 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Tinker Brook | TINKER BROOK CSO (22018) | 21 | 25 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Woodnook Water | PRIESTLEY CLOUGH CSO | 15 | 17 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Clough Brook | 20 RIBBLETON DRIVE CSO | 39 | 11 | 96.4 |
| United Utilities | Culverted Of Clough Brook | OAKHURST AVENUE CSO | 2 | 7 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Woodnook Water | SCOTT AVENUE/HURSTEAD STREET CSO | 11 | 2 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Woodnook Water | HILL STREET CSO | 1 | 0 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | Via Culvert To Woodnook Water | 560 MANCHESTER ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Clough Brook | CALDER, HUNCOAT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE | 0 | 0 | 97.8 |
| United Utilities | Culv Section Of Tinker Brook | FAIRFIELD ST/STEVENSON ST EAST CSO | 0 | 0 | 98.1 |
| United Utilities | Broad Oak Water | GRANGE LANE CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Culverted River Hyndburn | MELBOURNE STREET/WATER STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 98 |
| United Utilities | River Hyndburn | REAR OF 34 DINELY STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Woodnook Water Via Sws | REAR OF 489 MANCHESTER ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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.
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