St Helens South and Whiston

Polluted by sewage 219 times in 2024 lasting 327 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for St Helens South and Whiston in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 125 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for St Helens South and Whiston in 2024

12 Sites polluted by United Utilities
219 sewage dumps
327 hours duration
That's 13.62 days. 4.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for St Helens South and Whiston, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for St Helens South and Whiston in 2024. 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 2 of the total 12 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Rainford Brook HARESFINCH ROAD 37 108 96.9
United Utilities Prescot Brook MOLYNEUX DRIVE CSO 24009 34 58 13.3
United Utilities Sutton Brook Sankey Brook GASKELL STREET CSO 37 47 98.2
United Utilities Hardshaw Brook WARRINGTON NEW ROAD (42060) 20 34 100
United Utilities Rainford Brook SANKEY BROOK (ST HELENS) CSO 26 29 99.9
United Utilities Hardshaw Brook JACKSON STREET CSO 15 25 13.2
United Utilities Eccleston Mere ST HELENS ROAD CSO 422SZ 25 8 98.8
United Utilities Sutton Mill Brook LEACH LANE ST HELENS CSO 13 7 97.3
United Utilities Hardshaw Brook WARRINGTON NEW ROAD CSO 5 2 100
United Utilities Sutton Brook MOSS NOOK PS 3 2 100
United Utilities Sutton Mill Brook 95 MILL LANE (ST. HELENS) CSO 3 1 99.5
United Utilities Unknown CRAB ST/DUKE ST 1 0 65.5

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. This 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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