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Leigh and Atherton - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 357 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 3,365 hours , potential overflows 3,039 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Leigh and Atherton so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 7 hours , 0 potential
Feb - 248 hours , 0 potential
Mar - 75 hours , 760 potential
Apr - 1 hours , 1,440 potential
May - 24 hours , 838 potential
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities LEIGH WwTW Pennington Brook 13 148h 16m 25 h
United Utilities Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook Glaze Brook 12 61h 35m 13 h
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 8 31h 48m 1,505 h
United Utilities Tyldesley Western CSO Moss Brook 9 27h 16m -
United Utilities Fulwell Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook 4 25h 38m -
United Utilities HIGH BRIDGE CSO Bedford Brook 11 14h -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 3 9h 54m -
United Utilities Shakerley Road No 2 CSO Shakerley Brook 4 8h 40m -
United Utilities Kirkhall Lane/Victoria Street CSO Westleigh Brook 13 6h 46m -
United Utilities Stirling Close CSO Colling Lane Brook, Pen Leach 1 5h 38m -
United Utilities Higher Folds (Queensway) PS Pen Leach Brook 3 5h 31m 0 h
United Utilities Green Lane Leigh Pen Leach Brook 2 2h 55m -
United Utilities Wigan Road/Siddeley Street CSO Westleigh Brook 5 2h 53m 1,533 h
United Utilities Manchester Road/Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook 3 2h 4m -
United Utilities Pennington Mill bridge CSO Pennington Brook 2 1h 36m -
United Utilities Mill Lane (Leigh) CSO Bedford Brook 2 1h 19m -
United Utilities Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 2 0h 46m -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 4 0h 44m -
United Utilities Central Pumping Station Bedford Brook 1 0h 7m 0 h
United Utilities Primrose Street/Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Twist Lane/Westleigh Bridge CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Warrington Road CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities LEIGH WwTW Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 0 0h -
United Utilities Kiribati Way CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities FIRS LANE / URMSTON STREET CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mather Lane CSO Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 0 0h 3,299 h
United Utilities Mill Lane (Golborne) CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Crankwood Road PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mill Lane (Golborne) CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook Glaze Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities FIRS LANE / URMSTON STREET CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Central Pumping Station Bedford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Manchester Road/Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Wigan Road/Siddeley Street CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities HIGH BRIDGE CSO Bedford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Pennington Mill bridge CSO Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Westleigh/Etherstone Main Drainage CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Gloucester street CSO Collier Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Factory Street/Charles Street CSO, Leigh Hindsford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Fulwell Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Newlands Road CSO Pennington Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Primrose Street/Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 0 0h 0 h
United Utilities Stirling Close CSO Colling Lane Brook, Pen Leach 0 0h -
United Utilities Tyldesley Western CSO Moss Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 0 0h -
United Utilities Twist Lane/Westleigh Bridge CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Shakerley Road No 2 CSO Shakerley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lovers Lane/Leigh Road CSO Collier Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mill Lane (Leigh) CSO Bedford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Kiribati Way CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Higher Folds (Queensway) PS Pen Leach Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Gloucester street CSO Collier Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lovers Lane/Leigh Road CSO Collier Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mather Lane CSO Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Warrington Road CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Newlands Road CSO Pennington Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Kirkhall Lane/Victoria Street CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Factory Street/Charles Street CSO, Leigh Hindsford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Crankwood Road PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Westleigh/Etherstone Main Drainage CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h 27 h
United Utilities LEIGH WwTW Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Green Lane Leigh Pen Leach Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 0 0h -

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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