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Bolton West was polluted by sewage 1,176 times in 2023
lasting 4,740 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Bolton West in 2023

21 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,176 sewage dumps
4,740 h duration

That's 6.58 months. On average 3.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Bolton West

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bolton West in 2023. 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 25 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Hall Lee Brook	WESTHOUGHTON STW	214	1,850	99.9
United Utilities	Astley Brook	MOSS BANK WAY/CHIPPINGS W	146	827	98.5
United Utilities	Pearl Brook	HORWICH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	103	758	93.95
United Utilities	River Ribble	RIBCHESTER WWTW	20	243	90.75
United Utilities	Astley Brook	CHORLEY OLD ROAD SPS	105	213	100
United Utilities	Middle Brook	PARK HALL FARM CSO 071EY	81	156	100
United Utilities	Unnamed River Douglas	WOODBARN FARM CSO 07059	62	141	92.9
United Utilities	Middle Brook	LADYBRIDGE LANE CSO	43	80	100
United Utilities	Bessy Brook Via Sws	REGENT ROAD (BOLTON) CSO	58	78	100
United Utilities	Dean Brook	BROOK DEANS CLOSE CSO	38	56	100
United Utilities	Captains Clough	THOMPSON ROAD CSO	28	54	100
United Utilities	Astley Brook	ALBION TERRACE CSO 071BD	31	49	96.4
United Utilities	Pearl Brook	CHORLEY NEW ROAD SPS	41	46	99.3
United Utilities	Culverted Cunningham Brk	ASHGROVE/SOUTHFIELD DR CSO	43	43	95.4
United Utilities	Middle Brook	CHORLEY NEW ROAD CSO 071JS	49	40	100
United Utilities	Middle Brook	LADYBRIDGE LANE CSO	11	29	100
United Utilities	Astley Brook	GISBURN AVENUE CSO 071VO	27	28	100
United Utilities	Unknown	ST JOHNS RD	28	26	97.6
United Utilities	Middle Brook	JCT OF MANCHESTER RD/STATION RD CSO	19	7	100
United Utilities	Middle Brook	ALBERT ROAD CSO	28	6	100
United Utilities	Middle Brook	CHORLEY NEW RD TELFORD ST CSO 071JQ	1	0	91.5
United Utilities	River Croal	MANCHESTER RD/HOPE ST	0	0	0
United Utilities	Astley Brook	LIGHTBOUNDS RD LVAINE AVE CSO 072CO	0	0	97.9
United Utilities	Middle Brook	CHORLEY NEW/DEVONSHIRE ROAD CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Dean Brook	D/S 56 BARROW BRIDGE ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9

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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