The phrase "a blight upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a negative impact or is a source of harm or distress to a person, community, or environment.
Example: "The pollution from the factory is a blight upon the once pristine river."
Alternatives: "a scourge on" or "a curse to".
An emphasis on a certain kind of testing has become a blight upon the city's classrooms.
The song's a dirge and a blight upon humanity, but it's also one of the most famous tunes on Earth.
The West 30th Street heliport, from which the tourists who were killed took off, is a blight upon the rapidly improving Hudson River Greenway.
My inner conservative thinks unemployment is wasteful and damaging to the spirit — 15 million unemployed, many more underemployed — a disaster, a blight upon the land.
Callous, short-term profiteering, with no regard for the families and people who live nearby having to breath this air, and live next to a blight upon Britain's international legacy," Jon Linnell from Leicester wrote on the petition.
The old magic of the reservoir was also lost upon The New York Times, which joined the call to pull the plug, calling it "useless," and "a hideous object to the sight, and a blight upon the neighborhood," its frequent leaks making the area damp and malarial.
The death of two-year-old Keanu Williams is, he accepts, "a further blight upon the city's reputation".
He didn't take up the Confederate cause until 1991, after the national NAACP passed a resolution condemning the Confederate battle flag on state flags as "an odious blight upon the universe".
They spoke independently, but unanimously, of a blight that has come upon the West Indies since those who served America and Britain during the war returned home.
Worse than soulless, the purple GAME logo is a blight, a throbbing bruise upon the landscape, both psycho-spatial and cultural.
THE neighborhood was looked upon as a blight.
