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Warrington South

Polluted by sewage 445 times in 2025 lasting 2,207 hours

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Live data for Warrington South in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 08:45) there has been 600 hours of sewage overflows, from 50 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Warrington South in 2025

19 Sites polluted by United Utilities
445 sewage dumps
2,207 hours duration
That's 3.07 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Warrington South 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 Mersey Estuary WARRINGTON NORTH WWTW 68 560 99.95
United Utilities M/C Ship Canal WARRINGTON SOUTH WWTW 51 503 99.9
United Utilities Longford Brook LONGFORD BARRAGE CSO 48008 17 189 99.8
United Utilities Longford Brook ATHLONE ROAD CSO 48062 15 146 100
United Utilities River Mersey KINGSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 70 133 99.8
United Utilities Penketh Brook HALL NOOK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 56 131 100
United Utilities Sankey Brook LONGSHAW STREET CSO (48066) 12 124 83.9
United Utilities Sankey Brook BEWSEY BRIDGE PUMPING STN 9 112 100
United Utilities Sankey Brook BEWSEY BRIDGE CSO (BEWSY) 15 78 99.4
United Utilities River Mersey THEWLIS STREET CSO 37 58 68.5
United Utilities Sankey Brook THORNTON ROAD DEPOT CSO 482U7 15 48 100
United Utilities Dallam Brook Via Sws 4 TAVLIN AVENUE CSO 6 39 99.1
United Utilities Whittle Brook Via Sws HIGHFIELD AVENUE CSO 6 25 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal KNUTSFORD RD/GRAMMAR SCHOOL RD CSO 24 18 94.2
United Utilities River Mersey WESTY FLUMES 1 SOUTH CSO 489CB 8 10 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal ELLESMERE ROAD CSO 481TI 9 9 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WALTON PS 25 9 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WARRINGTON/GRAPPENHALL 1 3 61.9
United Utilities Whittle Brook WARRINGTON ROAD WA5 2JL CSO 1 3 100
United Utilities Sankey Brook SANKEY BRIDGES PS 0 0 99.9

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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