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Birkenhead - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 570 hours in 2026 so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Birkenhead 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 - 198 hours
Feb - 199 hours
Mar - 100 hours
Apr - 18 hours
May - 53 hours
Jun - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities BIRKENHEAD WwTW River Mersey Estuary/River Birket 42 445h -
United Utilities Bidston Bypass CSO River Birkett 18 70h 54m -
United Utilities BIRKENHEAD WWTW River Mersey Estuary/River Birket 14 40h 1m -
United Utilities St Pauls Road CSO River Ribble Estuary 16 11h 6m -
United Utilities Woodside CSO Mersey Estuary 5 2h 58m -
United Utilities Noctorum Avenue CSO River Fender 2 0h 30m -
United Utilities BIRKENHEAD WWTW River Mersey Estuary/River Birket 0 0h -
United Utilities Noctorum Avenue CSO River Fender 0 0h -
United Utilities Pool Lane CSO (512L8) Fender 0 0h -
United Utilities BIRKENHEAD WWTW River Mersey Estuary/River Birket 0 0h -
United Utilities Woodside CSO Mersey Estuary 0 0h -
United Utilities Stanton Road PS Boardman Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities BIRKENHEAD WwTW River Mersey Estuary/River Birket 0 0h -
United Utilities Bidston Bypass CSO River Birkett 0 0h -
United Utilities Stanton Road PS Boardman Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities BIRKENHEAD WWTW River Mersey Estuary/River Birket 0 0h -
United Utilities Pool Lane CSO (512L8) Fender 0 0h -
United Utilities St Pauls Road CSO River Ribble Estuary 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

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.