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Bamber Bridge

Polluted by sewage 547 times in 2025 lasting 1,771 hours

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Totals for Bamber Bridge in 2025

18 Sites polluted by United Utilities
547 sewage dumps
1,771 hours duration
That's 2.46 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bamber Bridge 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 Darwin FIELD EAST OF RIVER DARWIN CSO 56 473 99.5
United Utilities River Darwen HENNEL LANE CSO 43 317 99.8
United Utilities River Ribble Estuary WALTON-LE-DALE STW 28 232 100
United Utilities Many Brooks GREGSON LANE AREA CSO 401WN 88 190 99.6
United Utilities River Ribble GEORGE STREET CSO 331VJ 67 163 90.4
United Utilities River Ribble BANK PARADE CSO 39 125 100
United Utilities Boundary Brook CAUSEY WAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 22 70 92.5
United Utilities Swillbrook Clvrt R Ribble ALBYN STREET EAST CSO 33102 4 54 99.8
United Utilities Hennel Brook, River Darwin DUDDLE LANE CSO 8 50 99.9
United Utilities River Lostock REAR OF LUNAR CARAVANS 15 22 99.6
United Utilities River Lostock FOWLER LANE/CROSTON ROAD CSO 9 22 100
United Utilities River Lostock KERN MILL LANE CSO 122BI 6 16 91.4
United Utilities River Lostock FAIRFIELD STREET CSO 3 10 100
United Utilities River Darwen CANN BRIDGE STREET CSO 40042 16 9 98.7
United Utilities Cockshott Bk Trb R Darwen BROWNEDGE LANE CSO 401GR 2 6 100
United Utilities Swillbrook Culvert FRENCHWOOD KNOLL CSO 331UX 18 2 100
United Utilities Swill Brook Clvrt River Ribble HALSBURY STREET CSO 331XR 3 0 99.9
United Utilities River Lostock MH Y6 HAVELOCK ROAD CSO 120 0 95.4
United Utilities Storm Culvert Into R Ribble LONDON ROAD 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Storm Culvert, Ribble PERCY STREET CSO 0 0 99.8
United Utilities River Ribble CUERDALE LANE CSO 401QM 0 0 99.6

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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