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Makerfield - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 436 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,507 hours , potential overflows 78 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Makerfield 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 - 85 hours , 50 potential
Feb - 267 hours , 471 offline
Mar - 52 hours , 27 potential
Apr - 1 hours , 28 offline
May - 22 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours , 606 offline
Aug - 7 hours , 175 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Strangeways PS No2 Borsdane Brook 20 120h 2m -
United Utilities Hindley PS Hey Brook 12 69h 24m -
United Utilities Dean Wood CSO(49202) (WLN0020) Dean Brook R Douglas 25 67h 36m -
United Utilities Billinge Road/Victoria Street CSO Smithy Brook 5 60h 42m 548 h
United Utilities Bickershaw Lane PS Hey Brook 10 33h 4m 61 h
United Utilities Lodge Road (Orrell) CSO Smithy Brook 19 23h 2m -
United Utilities Kirkhall Lane CSO Westleigh Brook 21 22h 36m -
United Utilities Cleveland Drive CSO Millingford Brook 9 8h 32m 27 h
United Utilities Strangeways No1 Ww Ntwk PS Borsdane Brook 5 7h 54m -
United Utilities Westleigh Park CSO Westleigh Brook 17 7h 8m -
United Utilities Princess Road (St.Peter) CSO Millingford Brook 6 3h 26m -
United Utilities Landgate PS Park Brook 1 3h 1m -
United Utilities Lowe Mill Lane (Hindley) CSO Borsdane Brook 5 1h 35m -
United Utilities Swan Lane Hindley CSO Marsh Brook 4 1h 26m -
United Utilities George Street CSO Dog Pool Bk,Trb Of Borsdane Bk 4 1h 18m -
United Utilities Bamfurlong Pumping Station (50013) (WIG0127) Hey Brook 2 1h 13m -
United Utilities Danes Avenue Combined Sewer Overflow (50112) (WIG0250) Borsdane Brook 3 1h 10m -
United Utilities Bryn Road CSO Millingford Brook 6 1h -
United Utilities Strangeways CSO Borsdane Brook 1 0h 40m -
United Utilities Rear of 125 Baker Street CSO Poolstock Brook 2 0h 36m -
United Utilities Abram Hall PS Hey Brook 2 0h 32m -
United Utilities 396 Atherton Road CSO Dog Pool Brook Via Sws 1 0h 30m -
United Utilities Templeton Road PS Hey Brook 4 0h 19m -
United Utilities Chapel Green Road/ Arundle Street CSO Borsdane Brook 2 0h 6m -
United Utilities Bryn Gates PS Hey/Borsdane Brook 1 0h 2m 26 h
United Utilities Borsdane Brook (Hindley) CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Stevenson Close (Worsley) CSO Smithy Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Borsdane Brook (Hindley) CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chapel Green Road/Romford Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bryn Gates PS Hey/Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Liverpool Road (Hindley) CSO Hey Brook 0 0h 2 h
United Utilities Cleveland Drive CSO Millingford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bryn Road CSO Millingford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Strangeways PS No2 Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Cranberry Lodge Pumping Station (Site ID 50003) (WIG0162) Park Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chapel Green Road/Bridgewater Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Cross Street CSO Culvrtd Section Hockery Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Adjacent HM Borstal Hindley CSO Brookside Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chapel Green Road/ Arundle Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Winstanley Road PS Smithy Brook 0 0h 781 h
United Utilities Westleigh Park CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Princess Road (St.Peter) CSO Millingford Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear of Keats Avenue CSO Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Cranberry Lodge Pumping Station (Site ID 50003) (WIG0162) Park Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Abram Hall CSO Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Billinge Road/Victoria Street CSO Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Atherton Road Detention Tank Dog Pool Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Poolstock Lane/ Holt Street CSO Smithy Brook 0 0h 135 h
United Utilities Lord Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Wigan Cemetry CSO Ince Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Kirkhall Lane CSO Westleigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Junction of Romford Street & Chapel Green Road CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Wigan Road/Darby Lane CSO(502YD) (WIG0191) Mill Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 42 Bridge Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Darby Lane CSO Hockery Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Monmouth Crescent Millingford 0 0h -
United Utilities 184 Warrington Road CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Lowe Mill Lane (Hindley) CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ince Cemetery CSO Ince Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Landgate PS Park Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Adjacent HM Borstal Hindley CSO Brookside Brook 0 0h 1 h
United Utilities Strangeways CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Abram Hall CSO Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lord Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bickershaw Lane PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear of Keats Avenue CSO Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Templeton Road PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 396 Atherton Road CSO Dog Pool Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Cross Street CSO Culvrtd Section Hockery Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Junction of Romford Street & Chapel Green Road CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Stevenson Close (Worsley) CSO Smithy Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Bamfurlong Pumping Station (50013) (WIG0127) Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear of 125 Baker Street CSO Poolstock Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities George Street CSO Dog Pool Bk,Trb Of Borsdane Bk 0 0h -
United Utilities Wigan Cemetry CSO Ince Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Liverpool Road (Hindley) CSO Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Poolstock Lane/ Holt Street CSO Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Danes Avenue Combined Sewer Overflow (50112) (WIG0250) Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chapel Green Road/Bridgewater Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Winstanley Road PS Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ince Cemetery CSO Ince Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Wigan Road/Darby Lane CSO(502YD) (WIG0191) Mill Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Swan Lane Hindley CSO Marsh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Hindley PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Darby Lane CSO Hockery Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Monmouth Crescent Millingford 0 0h -
United Utilities Atherton Road Detention Tank Dog Pool Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bickershaw Lane Opposite Pear Tree CSO Brookside Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 42 Bridge Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chapel Green Road/Romford Street CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bickershaw Lane Opposite Pear Tree CSO Brookside Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lodge Road (Orrell) CSO Smithy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 184 Warrington Road CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Strangeways No1 Ww Ntwk PS Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Abram Hall PS Hey Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Dean Wood CSO(49202) (WLN0020) Dean Brook R Douglas 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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