Padiham

Polluted by sewage 296 times in 2025 lasting 544 hours

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Totals for Padiham in 2025

8 Sites polluted by United Utilities
296 sewage dumps
544 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Padiham
Sewage pollution map of Padiham: 544 hours in 2025
That's 3.24 weeks. 5.7 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Padiham 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 Calder OPP 76 BURNLEY ROAD CSO 93 169 99.5
United Utilities River Calder ALTHAM OUTFALL (FENNYFOLD) CSO 49 157 100
United Utilities River Calder INSKIP STREET (082AK) CSO 59 96 99
United Utilities River Calder STATION ROAD (PALIHAM) CSO 53 43 99.4
United Utilities River Calder ADJACENT TO PADIHAM LEISURE CENTRE 25 40 98.9
United Utilities Dean Clough River Calder SLADE LANE CSO 10 19 97.4
United Utilities River Calder SIMONSTONE LANE CSO 4 16 97.2
United Utilities Sweet Clough Green Brook IN FRONT OF NO.19 BEAR STREET CSO 3 2 99.9
United Utilities Green Brook LEVANT MILL FOOTBRIDGE CSO (O82CV) 0 0 100
United Utilities River Calder LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO (088NF) 0 0 99.2
United Utilities River Calder SHUTTLEWORTH STCALDER ST CSO 0 0 99.8
United Utilities Green Brook STOCKBRIDGE ROAD CSO (BUR0038) 0 0 99.2

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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