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Polluted by sewage 835 times in 2024 lasting 4,003 hours
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Widnes 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 locality 2 of the total 18 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | River Mersey Estuary | WIDNES WWTW | 167 | 1,711 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey | DESOTO ROAD CSO (201RQ) | 89 | 634 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Mersey Estuary | MERSEY VIEW ROAD CSO | 69 | 421 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Stewards Brook | ALEXANDER DRIVE CSO | 81 | 235 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey Via Sws | FRENCH STREET CSO 201UW | 51 | 195 | 81.3 |
| United Utilities | Ditton Brook | HARRISON STREET CSO | 33 | 158 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey Via Sws | GORSEY LANE DANS RD CSO 201V6 | 92 | 151 | 98.5 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey Via Sws | DANS ROAD WEATES CLOSE CSO 201Q2 | 33 | 118 | 98 |
| United Utilities | Ditton Brook | ASH LANE CSO | 15 | 116 | 13.4 |
| United Utilities | Ditton Brook Via Sws | EVERITE ROAD CSO | 52 | 72 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Bowers Brook | WARRINGTON ROAD CSO | 26 | 62 | 98.9 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey Estuary | MACDERMOTT ROAD PUMPING STATION | 17 | 61 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Bowers Brook | ESTER STREET CAR PARK CSO 203DR | 25 | 41 | 98.4 |
| United Utilities | Bowers Brook | SPIKE ISLAND ACCESS RD CSO (202RW) | 29 | 11 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey | TRENTHAM P.S | 46 | 5 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Barrows Green Brook Sws | DERBY RD BARROWS LANE CSO 203DC | 1 | 2 | 97.8 |
| United Utilities | Manchester Ship Canal | WATERLOO ROAD CSO (202ZW) | 9 | 1 | 96.2 |
| United Utilities | River Mersey Estuary | TANHOUSE LANE | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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