Makerfield was polluted by sewage 1,154 times in 2024
lasting 7,430 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Makerfield in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 1,458 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Makerfield in 2024
38 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,154 sewage dumps
7,430 h duration
That's 10.32 months. On average 3.2 times a day
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 Makerfield, 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 Makerfield 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 3 of the total 49 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAY NO.1 WW NTWK PS 141 3,226 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook DANES AVENUE CSO 118 1,047 99.6
United Utilities Hey Brook ABRAM HALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 65 486 97.1
United Utilities Hey Brook HINDLEY PUMPING STATION 50105 HINDL 46 328 100
United Utilities Dean Brook Trid Of R Douglas ORRELL HOUSE FARM CSO 50085 76 302 99.1
United Utilities Westleigh Brook WESTLEIGH PARK CSO 502ZF 75 276 98.4
United Utilities Hey Brook BICKERSHAW LANE PUMPING STATION 33 250 99.9
United Utilities Unknown LODGE RD, ORRELL(M.H. A4) 67 191 98.9
United Utilities Borsdane Brook BORSDANE BROOK (HINDLEY) CSO 35 182 99.3
United Utilities Unknown KIRKHALL LANE CSO 64 148 99.2
United Utilities Hey Brook LIVERPOOL ROAD (HINDLEY) CSO 20 116 98
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAYS CSO 50083 22 108 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAY NO.2 WW NTWK PS 31 108 100
United Utilities Ince Brook INCE CEMETARY CSO 14 102 100
United Utilities Hey Brook BAMFURLONG PUMPING STATION 22 75 100
United Utilities Millingford Brook CLEVELAND DRIVE CSO 40 67 100
United Utilities Millingford Brook PRINCESS RD (PETER ST) CSO (50006) 35 64 100
United Utilities Hey Brook ABRAM HALL PUMPING STATION 11 47 99.4
United Utilities Marsh Brook SWAN LANE HINDLEY CSO 503J8 30 45 99.4
United Utilities Smithy Brook REAR OF KEATS AVENUE CSO 16 32 99.2
United Utilities Dog Pool Bk,Trb Of Borsdane Bk GEORGE ST CSO 25 29 99.2
United Utilities Millingford Brook BRYN ROAD 42 28 100
United Utilities Hey Brook TEMPLETON ROAD WW NETWORK PS 46 24 100
United Utilities Dog Pool Brook ATHERTON RD DETENTION TANK 11 24 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook LOWE MILL LANE (HINDLEY) CSO 18 22 100
United Utilities Brookside Brook BICKERSHAW LANE CSO 501D5 9 15 99.1
United Utilities Unknown PS AT BRYN GATES 2 14 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook SEWAGE PS 1 8 14 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook 42 BRIDGE STREET CSO 2 10 99.5
United Utilities Park Brook CRANBERRY LODGE PUMPING STATION 3 10 100
United Utilities Smithy Brook POOLSTOCK LANE/HOLT STREET CSO 3 8 99.4
United Utilities Hockery Brook DARBY LANE CSO 7 8 94
United Utilities Hockery Brook DARBY LANE CSO 6 3 99.4
United Utilities Dog Pool Brook Via Sws 396 ATHERTON ROAD CSO 3 2 99
United Utilities Ince Brook WIGAN CEMETERY COMBINED SEWER OV 3 1 100
United Utilities Park Brook LANDGATE SPS 2 1 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/ROMFORD ST CSO 2 0 99.3
United Utilities Smithy Brook WINSTANLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws 184 WARRINGTON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Brookside Brook HM BORSTAL CSO 0 0 99.4
United Utilities Borsdane Brook LORD STREET 0 0 99.2
United Utilities Smithy Brook Via Sws STEVENSON CLOSE (WORSLEY) CSO 0 0 99
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/BRIDGEWATER ST 0 0 99.4
United Utilities Millingford Brook TROUTBECK ROAD CSO 508B3 0 0 100
United Utilities Culvrtd Section Hockery Brook CROSS STREET CSO 0 0 99.3
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPELGREEN/ARUNDEL ST 0 0 0
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD 0 0 0
United Utilities Unknown NR FOOTBRIDGE OVER BRK 0 0 0
United Utilities Smithy Brook BILLINGE HIGHER END SPS 0 0 99.4

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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