Black Burn polluted by sewage 236 times in 2024 - lasting 543 hours

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Totals for Black Burn in 2024
9 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
236 sewage dumps
543 h duration
That's 22.62 days. 4.5 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Black Burn in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Black Burn GELLESFIELD CSO 75 286 93.2
Northumbrian Water Black Burn ELMWOOD GARDENS 69 115 96.1
Northumbrian Water Black Burn PINEWOOD GARDENS CSO 42 79 97.2
Northumbrian Water Black Burn, HALTON LEA GATE CSO 13 28 97.9
Northumbrian Water Black Burn BLACKBURN BRIDGE CSO (TE 015) 25 28 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn NAPIER COURT CSO 3 1 95
Northumbrian Water Black Burn WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO 3 1 94.4
Northumbrian Water Black Burn BEECH STREET CSO 5 1 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn KINGSWAY/PRINCESS STREET CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn, FALLOWS CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 100

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. This 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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