Top of the Poops | Constituency | St Helens South and Whiston| Polluted by United Utilities

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Live data for St Helens South and Whiston in 2025

So far this year (as of May 8, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 125 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for St Helens South and Whiston in 2024

12 Sites polluted by United Utilities

219 sewage dumps

327 hours duration

That's 13.62 days. 4.2 times a week, on average

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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 St Helens South and Whiston, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for St Helens South and Whiston 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 2 of the total 12 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Rainford Brook	HARESFINCH ROAD	37	108	96.9
United Utilities	Prescot Brook	MOLYNEUX DRIVE CSO 24009	34	58	13.3
United Utilities	Sutton Brook Sankey Brook	GASKELL STREET CSO	37	47	98.2
United Utilities	Hardshaw Brook	WARRINGTON NEW ROAD (42060)	20	34	100
United Utilities	Rainford Brook	SANKEY BROOK (ST HELENS) CSO	26	29	99.9
United Utilities	Hardshaw Brook	JACKSON STREET CSO	15	25	13.2
United Utilities	Eccleston Mere	ST HELENS ROAD CSO 422SZ	25	8	98.8
United Utilities	Sutton Mill Brook	LEACH LANE ST HELENS CSO	13	7	97.3
United Utilities	Hardshaw Brook	WARRINGTON NEW ROAD CSO	5	2	100
United Utilities	Sutton Brook	MOSS NOOK PS	3	2	100
United Utilities	Sutton Mill Brook	95 MILL LANE (ST. HELENS) CSO	3	1	99.5
United Utilities	Unknown	CRAB ST/DUKE ST	1	0	65.5

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St Helens South and Whiston Polluted by sewage 219 times in 2024 lasting 327 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

St Helens South and Whiston