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River Calder polluted by sewage 867 times in 2025 - lasting 5,808 hours

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Totals for River Calder in 2025
17 Sites polluted by United Utilities
867 sewage dumps
5,808 h duration
That's 8.07 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Calder BILLINGTON WWTW 124 1,551 100
United Utilities River Calder WHALLEY WASTEWATER TREAMENT WORKS 91 1,006 100
United Utilities River Calder CALDER BRIDGE WWTW 52 835 99.7
United Utilities River Calder HYNDBURN WWTW HYNBD 53 524 100
United Utilities River Calder BURNLEY STW 38 434 99.1
United Utilities River Calder RIDDING LANE CSO (342X5) 50 372 79.1
United Utilities River Calder CROW WOOD CSO 08070 78 269 99.2
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 CALDER VALE PUMPING STATION 31 121 99.5
United Utilities River Calder LONGWORTH RD/R'WAY VIADUCT 41 104 99.3
United Utilities River Calder INSKIP STREET (082AK) CSO 59 96 99
United Utilities River Calder HONEY HOLME LANE CSO 20 54 98.7
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 River Calder SIMONSTONE LANE CSO 4 16 97.2
United Utilities River Calder BROOKLANDS ROAD/TODMORDEN ROAD CSO 6 9 99.7
United Utilities River Calder LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO (088NF) 0 0 99.2
United Utilities River Calder PARK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.8
United Utilities River Calder SHUTTLEWORTH STCALDER ST CSO 0 0 99.8
United Utilities River Calder WATERBARN STREET/BARDEN LANE CSO 0 0 98.3

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

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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