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Bolton West - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 789 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 688 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Bolton West so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 78 hours , 0 potential
Feb - 370 hours , 50 offline
Mar - 80 hours , 308 offline
Apr - 25 hours , 288 offline
May - 31 hours , 18 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 108 hours , 1 potential
Sept - 93 hours , 0 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities WESTHOUGHTON WwTW Hall Lee Brook 47 293h 56m 20 h
United Utilities CHORLEY NEW ROAD / DEVONSHIRE ROAD CSO Middle Brook 41 141h 28m -
United Utilities ALBION TERRACE CSO Astley Brook 31 98h 34m -
United Utilities Chorley Old Road/Chorley New Road CSO Astley Brook 39 52h 32m -
United Utilities HORWICH WwTW Pearl Brook 13 43h 57m -
United Utilities WESTHOUGHTON WwTW Hall Lee Brook 17 28h 34m -
United Utilities Wood Barn Farm CSO Unnamed River Douglas 26 25h 32m 0 h
United Utilities HORWICH WwTW Pearl Brook 5 24h 36m -
United Utilities PARK HALL FARM CSO Middle Brook 14 21h 50m 58 h
United Utilities Harrisons Road Wagon & Horses CSO River Tame 19 16h 6m -
United Utilities Ladybridge Lane (Near Ladybridge Brow) CSO Middle Brook 11 8h 30m 0 h
United Utilities Regent Road Bessy Brook Via Sws 10 6h 4m -
United Utilities Brook Dean Close (Smithhills Dean Road) Combined Sewer Overflow Dean Brook 8 5h 48m -
United Utilities Ash Grove/Southfield Drive CSO Culverted Cunningham Brk 6 4h 56m -
United Utilities Chorley New Road/Beaumont Road CSO Pearl Brook 5 4h 28m -
United Utilities GISBURN AVENUE CSO Astley Brook 5 3h 54m -
United Utilities Moss Bank Way/Chippings Road CSO Astley Brook 5 3h 40m -
United Utilities CHORLEY NEW ROAD CSO Middle Brook 6 3h 2m -
United Utilities Thompson Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 07055) (BOL0053) Captains Clough 1 1h 7m 607 h
United Utilities Heaton Bridge CSO Middle Brook 3 0h 24m 0 h
United Utilities CHORLEY NEW ROAD / TELFORD STREET CSO Middle Brook 1 0h 14m -
United Utilities Manchester Road/Hope Street CSO River Croal 2 0h 8m -
United Utilities LIGHTBOUNDS ROAD / LOUVAINE AVENUE CSO Astley Brook 1 0h 4m 0 h
United Utilities Chorley Old Road/Chorley New Road CSO Astley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities CHORLEY NEW ROAD / DEVONSHIRE ROAD CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Wood Barn Farm CSO Unnamed River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities LIGHTBOUNDS ROAD / LOUVAINE AVENUE CSO Astley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities HORWICH WwTW Pearl Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Manchester Road/Hope Street CSO River Croal 0 0h -
United Utilities CHORLEY NEW ROAD CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities CHORLEY NEW ROAD / TELFORD STREET CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Junction of Manchester/Station Road CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities GISBURN AVENUE CSO Astley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Downstream of No. 56 Barrow Bridge Road CSO Dean Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Heaton Bridge CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ash Grove/Southfield Drive CSO Culverted Cunningham Brk 0 0h -
United Utilities Moss Bank Way/Chippings Road CSO Astley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ladybridge Lane CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Thompson Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 07055) (BOL0053) Captains Clough 0 0h -
United Utilities Regent Road Bessy Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Harrisons Road Wagon & Horses CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Brook Dean Close (Smithhills Dean Road) Combined Sewer Overflow Dean Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities PARK HALL FARM CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities St Johns Road CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lostock Junction Lane CSO Bessy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities St Johns Road CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Junction of Manchester/Station Road CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chorley New Road/Beaumont Road CSO Pearl Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities WESTHOUGHTON WwTW Hall Lee Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities ALBION TERRACE CSO Astley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Downstream of No. 56 Barrow Bridge Road CSO Dean Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities WESTHOUGHTON WwTW Hall Lee Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ladybridge Lane CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ladybridge Lane (Near Ladybridge Brow) CSO Middle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities HORWICH WwTW Pearl Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lostock Junction Lane CSO Bessy Brook 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.