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Bootle

Polluted by sewage 139 times in 2024 lasting 126 hours

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Live data for Bootle in 2026

So far this year (as of 9 Mar 2026, 02:30) there has been 0 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 2024

7 Sites polluted by United Utilities
139 sewage dumps
126 hours duration
That's 5.25 days. 2.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bootle 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 Mersey Estuarine Waters BANKHALL RELIEF CSO 99005 63 69 100
United Utilities Liverpool Bay HARBORD ROAD PS 99047 28 28 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary RIMROSE BROOK CSO 24 10 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary BOOTLE NORTHERN OPC CSO 99102 17 9 100
United Utilities River Mersey STRAND ROAD STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 3 4 99.1
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary MILLERS BRIDGE CSO 99004 2 3 100
United Utilities Rimrose Brook, Rvr Mersey 3-8 MORNINGSIDE CSO 3282GE 2 0 98.6
United Utilities Moor Hey Brk River Alt DOOLEY DRIVE CSO/ 0 0 98.3

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.

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