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Live data for Makerfield in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 429 hours of sewage overflows, from 96 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Makerfield in 2025

41 Sites polluted by United Utilities

721 sewage dumps

3,049 hours duration

That's 4.23 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Makerfield in 2025. 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 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	STRANGEWAY NO.2 WW NTWK PS	74	677	79.6
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	DANES AVENUE CSO	88	638	99.1
United Utilities	Dean Brook Trid Of R Douglas	ORRELL HOUSE FARM CSO 50085	66	209	99.6
United Utilities	Hey Brook	HINDLEY PUMPING STATION 50105 HINDL	27	205	100
United Utilities	Unknown	LODGE RD, ORRELL(M.H. A4)	63	148	99.5
United Utilities	Ince Brook	INCE CEMETARY CSO	11	143	100
United Utilities	Hey Brook	BICKERSHAW LANE PUMPING STATION	19	129	99.8
United Utilities	Westleigh Brook	WESTLEIGH PARK CSO 502ZF	48	121	99.9
United Utilities	Hockery Brook	DARBY LANE CSO	15	113	98.3
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	BORSDANE BROOK (HINDLEY) CSO	15	85	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	STRANGEWAYS CSO 50083	16	77	99.6
United Utilities	Hey Brook	ABRAM HALL PUMPING STATION	13	66	99.5
United Utilities	Millingford Brook	CLEVELAND DRIVE CSO	35	55	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	LOWE MILL LANE (HINDLEY) CSO	39	52	100
United Utilities	Park Brook	CRANBERRY LODGE PUMPING STATION	6	41	99.9
United Utilities	Millingford Brook	PRINCESS RD (PETER ST) CSO (50006)	18	38	98.7
United Utilities	Marsh Brook	SWAN LANE HINDLEY CSO 503J8	21	32	99.9
United Utilities	Dog Pool Bk,Trb Of Borsdane Bk	GEORGE ST CSO	25	29	99.9
United Utilities	Millingford Brook	BRYN ROAD	32	24	99.9
United Utilities	Hey Brook	TEMPLETON ROAD WW NETWORK PS	33	22	100
United Utilities	Hey Brook	ABRAM HALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	5	18	99.6
United Utilities	Dog Pool Brook	ATHERTON RD DETENTION TANK	5	14	100
United Utilities	Park Brook	LANDGATE SPS	4	14	100
United Utilities	Brookside Brook	BICKERSHAW LANE CSO 501D5	8	12	99.9
United Utilities	Unknown	PS AT BRYN GATES	2	11	93.7
United Utilities	Smithy Brook	POOLSTOCK LANE/HOLT STREET CSO	2	11	99.2
United Utilities	Smithy Brook	REAR OF KEATS AVENUE CSO	9	10	99.9
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	42 BRIDGE STREET CSO	2	9	100
United Utilities	Unknown	NR FOOTBRIDGE OVER BRK	1	8	87.8
United Utilities	Hockery Brook	DARBY LANE CSO	2	6	97.7
United Utilities	Hey Brook	LIVERPOOL ROAD (HINDLEY) CSO	1	5	100
United Utilities	Dog Pool Brook Via Sws	396 ATHERTON ROAD CSO	2	4	100
United Utilities	Ince Brook	WIGAN CEMETERY COMBINED SEWER OV	2	3	100
United Utilities	Smithy Brook	BILLINGE HIGHER END SPS	4	1	100
United Utilities	Smithy Brook	WINSTANLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	LORD STREET	1	0	100
United Utilities	Culvrtd Section Hockery Brook	CROSS STREET CSO	1	0	98.7
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/BRIDGEWATER ST	1	0	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	CHAPELGREEN/ARUNDEL ST	1	0	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	CHAPEL GREEN ROAD/ROMFORD ST CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Millingford Brook	TROUTBECK ROAD CSO 508B3	2	0	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	CHAPEL GREEN ROAD	0	0	100
United Utilities	Brookside Brook	HM BORSTAL CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Smithy Brook Via Sws	STEVENSON CLOSE (WORSLEY) CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Borsdane Brook	STRANGEWAY NO.1 WW NTWK PS	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. 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.

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