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Polluted by sewage 310 times in 2024 lasting 1,953 hours
So far this year (as of Apr 19, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 481 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Southport, 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.
Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Southport 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 all the declared CSOs 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 | 158 | 1,490 | 99.55 |
| United Utilities | Douglas Estuary | HESKETH BANK WWTW HSKBK | 22 | 131 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | Dunkirk Dib | SHORE ROAD NETWORK PUMPING STATION | 53 | 109 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Three Pools Waterway | CROWLANDS STREET PUMPING STATION | 21 | 92 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Three Pools Waterway | OUTS119 RUFFORD RD CSO 382PZ | 35 | 79 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | Crossens Pool | SOUTHPORT WWTW | 9 | 43 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Sandy Brook | REAR NO.1 HASTINGS ROAD CSO 381P8 | 6 | 3 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Sandy Brook | O/S 65 DOVER ROAD CSO 381P8 | 6 | 3 | 95.4 |
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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