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Southport - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 179 hours in 2026 so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Southport 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 - 72 hours , 1 offline
Feb - 106 hours , 1 potential
Mar - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities MERE BROW WwTW Tarleton Runner 27 129 h 40m 0 h
United Utilities Liverpool Road PS (49039) River Douglas 9 41 h 24m -
United Utilities Shore Road Wastewater Network PS(Site ID 49065) (WLN0008) Dunkirk Dib 5 5 h 1m 2 h
United Utilities MERE BROW WwTW Tarleton Runner 2 1 h 56m -
United Utilities O/S 119 Rufford Road CSO Three Pools Waterway 2 1 h 12m -
United Utilities HESKETH LANE CSO River Douglas 1 0 h 24m -
United Utilities Balmoral Drive/North Road CSO River Ribble 0 0 h -
United Utilities Liverpool Road PS (49039) River Douglas 0 0 h -
United Utilities MERE BROW WwTW Tarleton Runner 0 0 h -
United Utilities O/S 119 Rufford Road CSO Three Pools Waterway 0 0 h -
United Utilities SOUTHPORT WwTW Crossens Pool 0 0 h -
United Utilities Balmoral Drive/North Road CSO River Ribble 0 0 h -
United Utilities MERE BROW WwTW Tarleton Runner 0 0 h -
United Utilities Weld Road CSO Irish Sea 0 0 h -
United Utilities HESKETH BANK WwTW Douglas Estuary 0 0 h -
United Utilities HESKETH BANK WwTW Douglas Estuary 0 0 h -
United Utilities Crowland Street PS Three Pools Waterway 0 0 h -
United Utilities SOUTHPORT WwTW Crossens Pool 0 0 h -
United Utilities Shore Road Wastewater Network PS(Site ID 49065) (WLN0008) Dunkirk Dib 0 0 h -
United Utilities Crowland Street PS Three Pools Waterway 0 0 h -
United Utilities Janes Brook Road PS Fine Jane'S Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Weld Road CSO Irish Sea 0 0 h -
United Utilities Janes Brook Road PS Fine Jane'S Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities The Crescent CSO (383KE) Three Pool'S Waterway 0 0 h -
United Utilities HESKETH LANE CSO River Douglas 0 0 h -
United Utilities The Crescent CSO (383KE) Three Pool'S Waterway 0 0 h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.