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Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for West Lancashire 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 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 Douglas | WIGAN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 45 | 829 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | Castle Brook | WESTHEAD WWTW | 84 | 596 | 94.8 |
| United Utilities | River Douglas | MILL LANE CSO 49201 | 130 | 592 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Simonswood Brook | BARROWNOOK WWTW | 80 | 476 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Boathouse Sluice | BURSCOUGH WWTW | 25 | 302 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Hey Cop Drain, River Alt | HILLHOUSE WWTW | 56 | 214 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Tawd Via Sws | 194 ORMSKIRK ROAD CSO | 69 | 156 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Douglas | SKELMERSDALE WWTW SKELM | 36 | 130 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Tawd Via Sws | NEAR TAWD VALE INN CSO | 39 | 69 | 93.5 |
| United Utilities | Bickerstaffe Brook | BICKERSTAFFE W.WATER PUMP STATION | 12 | 40 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Pond Rivtawd Via Sws | O/S 1 TEVERSHAM CSO | 20 | 22 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | River Tawd | NR FIRE STN ORMSKIRK RD | 11 | 8 | 85.5 |
| United Utilities | Eller Brook Via Sws | DERBY STREET CSO (49200) | 10 | 7 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Fine Janes Brook | AINSDALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 1 | 0 | 99.9 |
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.
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