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Borsdane Brook polluted by sewage 240 times in 2025 - lasting 1,552 hours

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Totals for Borsdane Brook in 2025
11 Sites polluted by United Utilities
240 sewage dumps
1,552 h duration
That's 2.16 months. 4.6 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Borsdane Brook

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Borsdane Brook in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAY NO.2 WW NTWK PS 74 677 79.6
United Utilities Borsdane Brook DANES AVENUE CSO 88 638 99.1
United Utilities Borsdane Brook BORSDANE BROOK (HINDLEY) CSO 15 85 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAYS CSO 50083 16 77 99.6
United Utilities Borsdane Brook LOWE MILL LANE (HINDLEY) CSO 39 52 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook OLD FOLD ROAD CSO 2 9 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook 42 BRIDGE STREET CSO 2 9 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook LORD STREET 1 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/BRIDGEWATER ST 1 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPELGREEN/ARUNDEL ST 1 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/ROMFORD ST CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD 0 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAY NO.1 WW NTWK PS 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. 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.

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