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Totals for RIBBLE in 2022

52 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,645 sewage dumps
9,234 h duration

That's 1.07 years! On average 4.5 times a day

How does RIBBLE compare?

RIBBLE was the #8 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for RIBBLE in 2022.

Accuracy Warning We use data from the water companies, but we are seeing many anomalies, that make us believe that location information is quite poor. The situation is likely far worse than reported here.

In particular: Totals on this page can differ from totals in the Ranked Shellfish page - number on this page are higher - this is due to a lack of standardization on shellfish area names. This page more accurately counts the differing names. For example "Solway" and "SOLWAY" are counted as different in the rankings, but correctly aggregated here.

Other CSOs may also be located nearby, however the water companies claim that these do not affect the water quality here.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Tarleton Runner	MERE BROW WWTW	168	2,210	96.2
United Utilities	Pool Stream	NAZE LANE PUMPING STATION	96	1,145	100
United Utilities	Tarra Carr Gutter	LONGTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	105	1,136	99.7
United Utilities	River Yarrow	CROSTON WWTW CRSTN	68	811	100
United Utilities	River Ribble Estuary	PRESTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	47	542	100
United Utilities	River Darwin	FIELD EAST OF RIVER DARWIN CSO	93	489	99.7
United Utilities	River Douglas	WIGAN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	37	463	100
United Utilities	River Alt	FORMBY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	79	425	99.7
United Utilities	Wrea Brook	LYTHAM ROAD	53	225	100
United Utilities	Longton Brook	CLIFFORD AVENUE CSO	26	128	100
United Utilities	River Yarrow	CHORLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS	26	111	99.9
United Utilities	River Ribble	BLACKPOOL ROAD CSO	38	104	94.6
United Utilities	Holme Beck Via Sws	HOLME WWTW	68	102	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	HAWTHORN CRESCENT CSO	57	96	92.2
United Utilities	Irish Sea	WEST ROAD CSO 38055	9	96	96.5
United Utilities	River Ribble	WOLSELEY ROAD CSO	15	88	100
United Utilities	Pool Stream	LAMALEACH CSO 19008	21	86	100
United Utilities	Boundary Brook Riv Ribble	FACTORY LANE CSO	14	85	98.8
United Utilities	Boundary Brook	CAUSEY WAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	70	85	99
United Utilities	Three Pools Waterway	OUTS119 RUFFORD RD CSO 382PZ	35	67	97.5
United Utilities	Hole Brook	BLACKBURN WWTW	13	66	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	BROOK CORNER CSO	16	56	100
United Utilities	Three Pools Waterway	CROWLANDS STREET PUMPING STATION	71	53	100
United Utilities	River Ribble Tidal Via Sws	RIBBLETON LANE CSO 33103	8	50	100
United Utilities	Dunkirk Dib	SHORE ROAD NETWORK PUMPING STATION	42	49	100
United Utilities	Liggard Brook	LYTHAM PUMPING STATION	21	49	100
United Utilities	Savick Bk, Ribble Est	LEA GATE PUMPING STATION	25	44	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	FAIRHAVEN PS	14	38	100
United Utilities	Crossens Pool	SOUTHPORT WWTW	15	35	100
United Utilities	Swillbrook Culvert	FRENCHWOOD KNOLL CSO 331UX	83	34	99.4
United Utilities	Tarleton Runner	MERE BROW WWTW	8	31	100
United Utilities	Carr Brook, Of Dow Brook	KIRKHAM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	18	28	95.2
United Utilities	River Douglas	SKELMERSDALE WWTW SKELM	11	28	99.7
United Utilities	River Douglas	SKELMERSDALE WWTW SKELM	18	27	100
United Utilities	Rvr Ribble	THORNPARK PUMPING STATION 33007	19	26	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	BALMORAL DRIVE/NORTH ROAD CSO	8	24	99.3
United Utilities	Douglas Estuary	HESKETH BANK WWTW HSKBK	6	23	100
United Utilities	Swillbrook Clvrt R Ribble	ALBYN STREET EAST CSO 33102	8	19	100
United Utilities	River Alt Estuarine Waters	RIVERSIDE ROAD PUMPING STATION	45	5	100
United Utilities	Sandy Brook	OPPOSITE NO.36 CARR LANE CSO	5	5	94.3
United Utilities	Bannister Brook	LEADALE ROAD CSO 402CQ	10	4	96.8
United Utilities	River Ribble	VALLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION	14	4	100
United Utilities	Liggard Brook	BALLAM ROAD PUMPING STATION	8	4	99.3
United Utilities	Sandy Brook	OPPOSITE NO. 320 LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO	5	3	100
United Utilities	River Douglas	HESKETH LANE CSO	8	3	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	FAIRHAVEN PS	4	3	100
United Utilities	Unnamed Of Mill Brook	THE GREENACRES CSO	3	3	91
United Utilities	Moore Brook Culvert	ST GEORGES ROAD CSO	8	2	100
United Utilities	Savick Brook	HASLAM PARK NORTH & SOUTH CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	MANCHESTER RD/SELBOURNE RD CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	River Ribble	RIVERSIDE ROAD CSO	1	0	98.9
United Utilities	Fine Janes Brook	AINSDALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	1	0	100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This 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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Designated shellfish area 'RIBBLE' polluted by sewage 1,645 times in 2022 - lasting 9,234 hours

52 Sites polluted by United Utilities

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