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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Southport 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 | Tarleton Runner | MERE BROW WWTW | 107 | 989 | 94.1 |
| United Utilities | Crossens Pool | SOUTHPORT WWTW | 26 | 118 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Three Pools Waterway | CROWLANDS STREET PUMPING STATION | 12 | 81 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Three Pools Waterway | OUTS119 RUFFORD RD CSO 382PZ | 31 | 69 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | Dunkirk Dib | SHORE ROAD NETWORK PUMPING STATION | 33 | 55 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | Douglas Estuary | HESKETH BANK WWTW HSKBK | 6 | 51 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | River Ribble | BALMORAL DRIVE/NORTH ROAD CSO | 3 | 25 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | River Douglas | HESKETH LANE CSO | 12 | 6 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Sandy Brook | OPPOSITE NO. 320 LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO | 6 | 4 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Sandy Brook | REAR NO.1 HASTINGS ROAD CSO 381P8 | 7 | 2 | 98.9 |
| United Utilities | Sandy Brook | O/S 65 DOVER ROAD CSO 381P8 | 5 | 1 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Sandy Brook | OPPOSITE NO 7 CROMER ROAD CSO | 4 | 1 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Fine Jane'S Brook | JANES BROOK ROAD PUMPING STATION | 0 | 0 | 82.8 |
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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