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Bolton South and Walkden

Polluted by sewage 1,168 times in 2025 lasting 4,585 hours

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Live data for Bolton South and Walkden in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Sept 2026, 14:45) there has been 1,849 hours of sewage overflows, from 88 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bolton South and Walkden in 2025

31 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,168 sewage dumps
4,585 hours duration
That's 6.37 months. On average 3.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bolton South and Walkden 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 River Irwell BOLTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 116 1,395 97.5
United Utilities River Croal HACKEN WORKS CSO 100 506 99.6
United Utilities Little Hulton Stream WORSLEY STW 115 495 100
United Utilities Croal Minor 91 MANCHESTER ROAD CSO 072GO 114 302 93.2
United Utilities Unity Brook HULTON LANE ENDS STW 62 300 99.8
United Utilities River Croal CAMMERCLOUGH ROAD CSO 93 271 99.9
United Utilities Tanner Hole Brook ADELAIDE STREET CSO 59 220 99.8
United Utilities Middle Brook NO 76 MIDDLE BROOK CSO 94 160 96.1
United Utilities River Irwell KEARSLEY PS 27 131 100
United Utilities Honksford Brook CSO SOUTH OF ASHAWE GROVE 38 115 99.7
United Utilities Jenny Beck Rvr Croal WESTON ST VIKING ST CSO BOL0115 50 98 99.9
United Utilities Clvrt Singing Clough Brook STONECLOUGH ROAD CSO 07045 41 90 99.8
United Utilities Singing Clough Brook STONEHILL ROAD CSO 072TV 26 86 99.8
United Utilities Ellen Brook Culvert TYNESBANK 26 76 99.4
United Utilities Jenny Beck, Rv Croal RISHTON LANE/WESTON STREET CSO 41 73 99.9
United Utilities Ellen Brook NEWEARTH ROAD CSO 26 51 100
United Utilities Culvrt Singing Clough Brook STONEHILL ROAD CSO 07049 19 50 77.2
United Utilities Worsley Brook WALKDEN RD HOLYOAKE RD CSO 37045 19 27 99.6
United Utilities Middle Brook BLACKSHAW LANE CSO 072FW 15 24 99.3
United Utilities Croal Minor ORLANDO STREET CSO 078J3 12 19 100
United Utilities River Croal SPRINGFIELD TANK CSO 10 19 99.3
United Utilities Clvrt River Irwell SINGING CLOUGH CSO 071Q8 11 16 95.5
United Utilities Singing Clough Brook STONEHILL TRADING ESTATE CSO 5 13 99.3
United Utilities River Croal HALL LANE 9 10 100
United Utilities River Croal STPETERS WAY/SPRINGFIELD IND ES CSO 18 10 100
United Utilities Honksford Brook CSO SOUTH OF ASHAWE GROVE 2 4 99.7
United Utilities Jenny Beck Rvr Croal LEVER STREET NO 5 CSO 078CD 4 4 99.9
United Utilities River Croal FERN STREET CSO (078J3) 8 3 100
United Utilities A Culverted Section Jenny Beck LEVER STREET NO1 CSO 5 1 82
United Utilities Honksford Brook Via Sws BEECH GROVE CSO 2 1 99.4
United Utilities Jenny Beck Culvert River Croal CROFT LN MANCHESTER RD CSO BOL0206 1 0 98.5
United Utilities Jenny Beck BRIDGEMAN ST HIGHER SWAN LANE CSO 0 0 94.4
United Utilities Middle Brook Via Sws CALEDONIA ST HIBERNIA ST CSO 071IB 0 0 94.3
United Utilities Croal Minor CHURCH BANK (SIDE OF VIADUCT) CSO 0 0 96.3
United Utilities Croal Minor CHURCH BANK RAILWAY VIADUCT CSO 0 0 96.9
United Utilities Astley Brook LITTLE HULTON CSO 0 0 99.6
United Utilities River Irwell RIVERSIDE CSO BOLTO BOL0058 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.

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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