Polluted by sewage 219 times in 2024 lasting 327 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 125 hours of sewage overflows
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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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Donate NowHere 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 % |
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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 |
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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