Bootle

Polluted by sewage 65 times in 2025 lasting 77 hours

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Live data for Bootle in 2026

So far this year (as of 14 Nov 2026, 02:30) there has been 18 hours of sewage overflows, from 12 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bootle in 2025

8 Sites polluted by United Utilities
65 sewage dumps
77 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Bootle
Sewage pollution map of Bootle: 65 spills in 2025, lasting 77 hours, by United Utilities
That's 3.21 days. 1.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bootle in 2025. 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 Mersey Estuary BANKHALL RELIEF CSO 99005 20 39 100
United Utilities Liverpool Bay HARBORD ROAD PS 99047 14 17 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuarine Waters BANKHALL RELIEF CSO 99005 7 10 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary RIMROSE BROOK CSO 10 3 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary BOOTLE NORTHERN OPC CSO 99102 9 2 100
United Utilities Moor Hey Brk River Alt DOOLEY DRIVE CSO/ 1 1 100
United Utilities River Mersey STRAND ROAD STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 2 1 100
United Utilities Rimrose Brook, Rvr Mersey 3-8 MORNINGSIDE CSO 3282GE 2 0 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary MILLERS BRIDGE CSO 99004 0 0 100

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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