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Bolton North East

Polluted by sewage 917 times in 2025 lasting 2,941 hours

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Live data for Bolton North East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 811 hours of sewage overflows, from 87 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bolton North East in 2025

31 Sites polluted by United Utilities
917 sewage dumps
2,941 hours duration
That's 4.08 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Eagley Brook BIRTENSHAW FARM CSO 98 483 99.9
United Utilities River Croal SPA ROAD CSO 07017 45 441 99.6
United Utilities River Croal DRAGONS TOOTH CSO 55 334 100
United Utilities River Croal GINGER FOLD CSO BOL0144 86 297 99.5
United Utilities Eagley Brook DUNSCAR BRIDGE CSO 45 217 100
United Utilities Astley Brook ASTLEY BRIDGE CSO 071WP 47 182 100
United Utilities River Tonge WATERS MEETING ROAD CSO 073KZ 55 166 99.3
United Utilities Captains Clough Brook CHORLEY OLD CHORLEY NEW RD CSO 73 135 98
United Utilities Cvrt Sec Middle Brook R R BRIDGE STREET BOW STREET CSO 63 119 99.8
United Utilities Croal Minor CROWN STREET CSO 071QI 78 97 99.6
United Utilities Bradshaw Brook ROYAL OAK CSO 07039 25 90 100
United Utilities Eagley Brook OLD EAGLEY CSO 073DM 35 89 92.5
United Utilities Bradshaw Brook THICKETFORD CSO 072UX 30 81 99.8
United Utilities River Tonge TURNER BRIDGE CSO 42 36 100
United Utilities River Tonge ZULU SREET CSO 07032 25 27 100
United Utilities River Tonge HAPATIA STREET CSO 074EA 18 25 83
United Utilities Clvrt Of Captains Clough Brook VALLETS LANE CSO 7 22 99.7
United Utilities River Tonge TONGE MOOR RD CSO 11 21 84.9
United Utilities Clvrt Sec River Croal Minor CHURCH WHARFE CSO 073BW 21 12 99.9
United Utilities River Tonge HAG END BROW CSO 19 12 99.1
United Utilities Bradshaw Brook OAKENBOTTOM ROAD CSO 072IS 5 10 100
United Utilities Eagley Brook HOUGH LANE EAGLEY BRIDGE CSO 073DL 10 9 99.7
United Utilities River Croal WALKER STREET CSO 7 9 100
United Utilities Blackshaw Brook DARCY LEVER OLD HALL CSO 10 8 95.6
United Utilities River Croal WHITE LION BROW CSO 1 2 99.8
United Utilities Croal Minor MANOR STREET BOW STREET CSO 072ES 1 1 100
United Utilities River Croal BRIDGEMAN PARK CSO 1 0 88.8
United Utilities River Croal WATER STREET CSO 07020 1 0 100
United Utilities Eagley Brook SHARPLES AVE EASTGROVE AVE CSO 071S 1 0 98.8
United Utilities River Tonge BLACKBURN RD HALLIWELL RD CSO 071EU 1 0 99.9
United Utilities Queens Park Gilnow Park Pond MORNINGTON RD BACK LINCOLN RD CSO 1 0 97.2
United Utilities River Croal EDITH STREET CSO 078NL 0 0 99.9
United Utilities River Tonge ENTWISTLE ST CSO 0 0 76.4
United Utilities Eagley Brook HALL COPPICE SSO 0 0 99.4
United Utilities Eagley Brook HALL I TH WOOD CSO 071XP 0 0 100
United Utilities Bradshaw Brook HIND STREET CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Croal KING STREET CSO 072BV 0 0 93.6
United Utilities Bradshaw Brook LONGSIGHT PARK CSO 07038 0 0 97.6
United Utilities Eagley Brook PLAYFAIR ST 0 0 99.4
United Utilities River Tonge TONGE VALLEY CSO 0 0 77.1

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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