Makerfield was polluted by sewage 1,500 times in 2023
lasting 9,036 hours - that's 1.05 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Makerfield in 2023
36 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,500 sewage dumps
9,036 h duration
That's 1.05 years! On average 4.1 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Makerfield in 2023. 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 7 of the total 49 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 7 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAY NO.1 WW NTWK PS 174 3,643 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook DANES AVENUE CSO 131 1,476 100
United Utilities Hey Brook HINDLEY PUMPING STATION 50105 HINDL 80 500 100
United Utilities Westleigh Brook WESTLEIGH PARK CSO 502ZF 116 476 100
United Utilities Dean Brook Trid Of R Douglas ORRELL HOUSE FARM CSO 50085 109 461 98.8
United Utilities Unknown LODGE RD, ORRELL(M.H. A4) 112 397 96.3
United Utilities Hey Brook BICKERSHAW LANE PUMPING STATION 55 380 99.9
United Utilities Hey Brook ABRAM HALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 36 306 100
United Utilities Unknown KIRKHALL LANE CSO 81 282 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook BORSDANE BROOK (HINDLEY) CSO 59 258 100
United Utilities Hey Brook ABRAM HALL PUMPING STATION 24 156 98.4
United Utilities Millingford Brook CLEVELAND DRIVE CSO 64 127 99.2
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAYS CSO 50083 36 116 82.6
United Utilities Millingford Brook PRINCESS RD (PETER ST) CSO (50006) 48 73 99.9
United Utilities Hey Brook BAMFURLONG PUMPING STATION 26 62 100
United Utilities Ince Brook INCE CEMETARY CSO 7 53 98.6
United Utilities Marsh Brook SWAN LANE HINDLEY CSO 503J8 46 45 100
United Utilities Millingford Brook BRYN ROAD 59 37 100
United Utilities Hey Brook TEMPLETON ROAD WW NETWORK PS 65 25 100
United Utilities Brookside Brook BICKERSHAW LANE CSO 501D5 23 25 97.7
United Utilities Dog Pool Bk,Trb Of Borsdane Bk GEORGE ST CSO 38 20 100
United Utilities Dog Pool Brook ATHERTON RD DETENTION TANK 9 20 100
United Utilities Smithy Brook REAR OF KEATS AVENUE CSO 16 17 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook SEWAGE PS 1 3 13 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook LOWE MILL LANE (HINDLEY) CSO 22 12 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/ROMFORD ST CSO 14 11 97.3
United Utilities Park Brook CRANBERRY LODGE PUMPING STATION 7 10 100
United Utilities Hey Brook LIVERPOOL ROAD (HINDLEY) CSO 12 6 96.8
United Utilities Dog Pool Brook Via Sws 396 ATHERTON ROAD CSO 5 4 100
United Utilities Smithy Brook POOLSTOCK LANE/HOLT STREET CSO 2 3 97.1
United Utilities Hockery Brook DARBY LANE CSO 7 1 100
United Utilities Park Brook LANDGATE SPS 1 1 100
United Utilities Smithy Brook WINSTANLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION 2 1 100
United Utilities Culvrtd Section Hockery Brook CROSS STREET CSO 4 0 96.4
United Utilities Smithy Brook BILLINGE HIGHER END SPS 4 0 100
United Utilities Ince Brook WIGAN CEMETERY COMBINED SEWER OV 3 0 98.6
United Utilities Hockery Brook DARBY LANE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws 184 WARRINGTON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPELGREEN/ARUNDEL ST 0 0 0
United Utilities Unknown NR FOOTBRIDGE OVER BRK 0 0 0
United Utilities Brookside Brook HM BORSTAL CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook STRANGEWAY NO.2 WW NTWK PS 0 0 0
United Utilities Borsdane Brook 42 BRIDGE STREET CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Smithy Brook Via Sws STEVENSON CLOSE (WORSLEY) CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD 0 0 0
United Utilities Borsdane Brook LORD STREET 0 0 0
United Utilities Millingford Brook TROUTBECK ROAD CSO 508B3 0 0 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/BRIDGEWATER ST 0 0 0
United Utilities Unknown PS AT BRYN GATES 0 0 100

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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