Southport

Polluted by sewage 310 times in 2024 lasting 1,953 hours

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Live data for Southport in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 19, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 481 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Southport in 2024

8 Sites polluted by United Utilities
310 sewage dumps
1,953 hours duration
That's 2.71 months. 6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

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.

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Pollution Summary 2024

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

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.

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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