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Live data for Leigh and Atherton in 2025

So far this year (as of May 24, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 967 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Leigh and Atherton in 2024

30 Sites polluted by United Utilities

709 sewage dumps

3,371 hours duration

That's 4.68 months. On average 1.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Leigh and Atherton

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Leigh and Atherton, 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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leigh and Atherton 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 CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

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Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Pennington Brook	LEIGH STW	58	695	99.3
United Utilities	Bedford Brook Glaze Brook	PARK LANE CSO 50098	65	541	100
United Utilities	Collier Brook	GLOUCESTER ST CSO	46	433	98.9
United Utilities	Hindsford Brook	TYLDESLEY CSO	44	422	99.9
United Utilities	Hindsford Brook	FULWELL AVENUE CSO	28	216	100
United Utilities	Bedford Brook	HIGH BRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	63	177	99.8
United Utilities	Shakerley Brook	SHAKERLEY ROAD NO2 CSO	20	125	99.1
United Utilities	Colling Lane Brook, Pen Leach	STIRLING CLOSE CSO 508NA	16	110	98.5
United Utilities	Cop Brook	ROBIN HOOD PS	71	87	100
United Utilities	Millingford Brook	MILL LANE (GOLBORNE) CSO	12	67	100

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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.

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Leigh and Atherton Polluted by sewage 709 times in 2024 lasting 3,371 hours

Leigh and Atherton