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Polluted by sewage 263 times in 2024 lasting 1,819 hours
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Burnley in 2024. 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 locality all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | River Calder | BURNLEY STW | 112 | 1,572 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | River Calder | OPP 76 BURNLEY ROAD CSO | 126 | 234 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | River Calder | BROOKLANDS ROAD/TODMORDEN ROAD CSO | 15 | 8 | 99 |
| United Utilities | Sweet Clough Green Brook | IN FRONT OF NO.19 BEAR STREET CSO | 3 | 3 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | Pendle Water Via Culvert | SACKVILLE ST MONTAGUE ST CSO | 2 | 0 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Culverted Pendle Water | 134 BURNLEY ROAD CSO | 3 | 0 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Burn | NE AREA SEWER | 1 | 0 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | Green Brook | STOCKBRIDGE ROAD CSO (BUR0038) | 1 | 0 | 97.2 |
| United Utilities | Green Brook | LEVANT MILL FOOTBRIDGE CSO (O82CV) | 0 | 0 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | River Calder | LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO (088NF) | 0 | 0 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | River Calder | WATERBARN STREET/BARDEN LANE CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.4 |
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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