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St Helens North

Polluted by sewage 1,030 times in 2025 lasting 2,704 hours

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Live data for St Helens North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,037 hours of sewage overflows, from 41 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for St Helens North in 2025

17 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,030 sewage dumps
2,704 hours duration
That's 3.76 months. On average 2.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for St Helens North 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 Sankey Brook ST HELENS STW 570 601 100
United Utilities Sankey Brook WEST END/ WHARF ROAD CSO 425F3 35 485 95.3
United Utilities Dean Brook R Douglas DEAN WOOD CSO 70 303 97.9
United Utilities Black Brook BILLINGE SOUTH PS 25 261 100
United Utilities Black Brook FOLDS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 68 216 99.5
United Utilities Sankey Canal RED BROW CSO (42076) 42 173 99.4
United Utilities Newton Brook 10 WARWICK AVENUE CSO (42058) 40 136 96.4
United Utilities Sankey Brook WHARF ROAD CSO 42077 44 122 98.9
United Utilities Ellams Brook, Newton Brook LODGE LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 13 94 99.9
United Utilities Black Brook Via Sws CARR MILL ROAD CSO 35 73 99.4
United Utilities Sankey Brook MALVERN ROAD CSO (42052) 29 66 99.8
United Utilities Rainford Brook WASHWAY LANE 31 62 99.8
United Utilities Sutton Brook Via Sws BERRYS LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 44 97.4
United Utilities Unknown VICARAGE ROAD 5 34 95.3
United Utilities Sankey Brook RUDD AVENUE 5 27 99.9
United Utilities Newton Brook WARGRAVE ROAD CSO 5 1 85
United Utilities Newton Brook MILL LANE CSO 425E6 2 0 99.5
United Utilities Sankey Brook GLOUCESTER STREET 0 0 96.3
United Utilities Unknown PARK ROAD NORTH 0 0 83.6
United Utilities Sankey Brook WHARF ROAD CSO 0 0 99

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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