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Leigh and Atherton - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,084 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 15,268 hours , potential overflows 22 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Leigh and Atherton for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 898 hours , 13 potential
Feb - 23 hours , 968 offline
Mar - 42 hours , 2,050 offline
Apr - 1 hours , 626 offline
May - 4 hours , 240 offline
Jun - 3 hours , 1,024 offline
Jul - 25 hours , 1 potential
Aug - 5 hours , 1,626 offline
Sept - 352 hours , 6 potential
Oct - 134 hours , 1,488 offline
Nov - 261 hours , 1 potential
Dec - 332 hours , 918 offline
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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 25 315h 30m 0 h
United Utilities Mill Lane (Golborne) CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 11 242h 52m -
United Utilities LEIGH WwTW Pennington Brook 18 166h 6m -
United Utilities Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook Glaze Brook 26 164h 18m -
United Utilities Tyldesley Western CSO Moss Brook 19 134h 2m -
United Utilities Fulwell Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook 19 114h 43m -
United Utilities HIGH BRIDGE CSO Bedford Brook 36 105h 5m 0 h
United Utilities Shakerley Road No 2 CSO Shakerley Brook 16 76h 14m 0 h
United Utilities Stirling Close CSO Colling Lane Brook, Pen Leach 13 61h 56m -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 24 61h 14m 2 h
United Utilities Wigan Road/Siddeley Street CSO Westleigh Brook 17 56h 49m -
United Utilities Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook Glaze Brook 7 52h 38m 0 h
United Utilities Westleigh/Etherstone Main Drainage CSO Westleigh Brook 14 51h 12m 683 h
United Utilities Manchester Road/Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook 21 48h 34m 6 h
United Utilities Kirkhall Lane/Victoria Street CSO Westleigh Brook 29 48h 18m 4 h
United Utilities Mill Lane (Leigh) CSO Bedford Brook 12 37h 43m -
United Utilities Fulwell Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook 4 36h 6m -
United Utilities Tyldesley Western CSO Moss Brook 3 32h 45m -
United Utilities Gloucester street CSO Collier Brook 3 26h 47m -
United Utilities Shakerley Road No 2 CSO Shakerley Brook 4 25h 44m -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 14 22h 17m 1,002 h
United Utilities Pennington Mill bridge CSO Pennington Brook 10 20h 20m 0 h
United Utilities Warrington Road CSO Bowers Brook 3 20h 19m -
United Utilities Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 10 20h 9m 0 h
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 7 19h 35m 0 h
United Utilities HIGH BRIDGE CSO Bedford Brook 6 17h 42m -
United Utilities Higher Folds (Queensway) PS Pen Leach Brook 3 13h 30m -
United Utilities Stirling Close CSO Colling Lane Brook, Pen Leach 1 13h 26m 0 h
United Utilities Green Lane Leigh Pen Leach Brook 6 13h 19m 7 h
United Utilities Central Pumping Station Bedford Brook 9 10h 7m 418 h
United Utilities Kiribati Way CSO Westleigh Brook 11 9h 16m 797 h
United Utilities Wigan Road/Siddeley Street CSO Westleigh Brook 3 9h 3m -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 6 8h 43m 0 h
United Utilities Kirkhall Lane/Victoria Street CSO Westleigh Brook 5 8h 4m -
United Utilities Crankwood Road PS Hey Brook 2 4h 59m -
United Utilities Lovers Lane/Leigh Road CSO Collier Brook 4 4h 3m -
United Utilities Twist Lane/Westleigh Bridge CSO Westleigh Brook 4 4h 12 h
United Utilities Green Lane Leigh Pen Leach Brook 1 1h 38m -
United Utilities Manchester Road/Park Lane CSO Bedford Brook 3 1h 32m -
United Utilities Central Pumping Station Bedford Brook 1 0h 56m -
United Utilities Mather Lane CSO Pennington Brook 2 0h 40m -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 2 0h 36m -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 2 0h 24m 6,783 h
United Utilities Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 1 0h 24m -
United Utilities FIRS LANE / URMSTON STREET CSO Westleigh Brook 1 0h 22m 31 h
United Utilities Pennington Mill bridge CSO Pennington Brook 1 0h 22m -
United Utilities Factory Street/Charles Street CSO, Leigh Hindsford Brook 6 0h 14m 966 h
United Utilities Newlands Road CSO Pennington Brook Via Sws 1 0h 14m 0 h
United Utilities Mather Lane CSO Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mill Lane (Leigh) CSO Bedford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities York Avenue CSO Hindsford Brook/Shakerley Broo 0 0h 4,570 h
United Utilities Twist Lane/Westleigh Bridge CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities FIRS LANE / URMSTON STREET CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Newlands Road CSO Pennington Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Higher Folds (Queensway) PS Pen Leach Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Crankwood Road PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Primrose Street/Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Westleigh/Etherstone Main Drainage CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Warrington Road CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Robin Hood PS Cop Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mill Lane (Golborne) CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities LEIGH WwTW Pennington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Primrose Street/Ellesmere Street CSO Shakerley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lovers Lane/Leigh Road CSO Collier Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Kiribati Way 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 0 h

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.