Bootle was polluted by sewage 139 times in 2024
lasting 126 hours

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Live data for Bootle in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 PM) there has been 10 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Bootle in 2024
7 Sites polluted by United Utilities
139 sewage dumps
126 h duration
That's 5.25 days. 2.7 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Bootle, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.

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 0 of the total 8 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

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. 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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