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West Lancashire - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 294 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 807 hours , potential overflows 303 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in West Lancashire 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 - 63 hours , 279 potential
Feb - 147 hours , 24 potential
Mar - 47 hours , 30 offline
Apr - 13 hours , 0 offline
May - 17 hours , 0 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours , 397 offline
Aug - 5 hours , 354 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Mill Lane CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 40 118h 4m 0 h
United Utilities BARROW NOOK WwTW Simonswood Brook 22 57h 22m -
United Utilities Orrell House Farm CSO Dean Brook Trid Of R Douglas 29 56h 18m -
United Utilities WESTHEAD WwTW Castle Brook 16 29h 5m 30 h
United Utilities 194 Ormskirk Road River Tawd Via Sws 16 13h 14m -
United Utilities HILLHOUSE WwTW Hey Cop Drain, River Alt 5 7h 26m 280 h
United Utilities Bickerstaffe Wastewater PS Bickerstaffe Brook 3 6h 32m 24 h
United Utilities WIGAN (HOSCAR) WwTW River Douglas 1 3h 28m -
United Utilities Near Tawd Vale Inn River Tawd Via Sws 4 1h 40m -
United Utilities SKELMERSDALE WwTW River Douglas 2 0h 52m -
United Utilities Derby Street CSO Eller Brook Via Sws 1 0h 11m 774 h
United Utilities SKELMERSDALE WwTW River Douglas 1 0h 10m -
United Utilities Ormskirk Road , Skelmersdale River Tawd 2 0h 4m 1 h
United Utilities BURSCOUGH WwTW Boathouse Sluice 1 0h -
United Utilities Outside 1 Teversham Three Pools Waterway 0 0h -
United Utilities AINSDALE WwTW Fine Janes Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Opposite 36 Carr Lane CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities HILLHOUSE WwTW Hey Cop Drain, River Alt 0 0h -
United Utilities Derby Street CSO Eller Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities O/s 65 Dover Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear No.1 Hastings Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Outside 1 Teversham Three Pools Waterway 0 0h -
United Utilities Opposite No.320 Liverpool Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 194 Ormskirk Road River Tawd Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Opposite No.7 Cromer Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities SKELMERSDALE WwTW River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities BURSCOUGH WwTW Boathouse Sluice 0 0h -
United Utilities Ormskirk Road , Skelmersdale River Tawd 0 0h -
United Utilities Mill Lane CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Opposite 36 Carr Lane CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bickerstaffe Wastewater PS Bickerstaffe Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Opposite No.320 Liverpool Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Orrell House Farm CSO Dean Brook Trid Of R Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Ainsdale WwTW Fine Janes Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Dicket's Lane CSO (493DE) Eller Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Near Tawd Vale Inn River Tawd Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Dicket's Lane CSO (493DE) Eller Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities WIGAN (HOSCAR) WwTW River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear No.1 Hastings Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities AINSDALE WwTW Fine Janes Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities O/s 65 Dover Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Opposite No.7 Cromer Road CSO Sandy Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities WESTHEAD WwTW Castle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ainsdale WwTW Fine Janes Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities BARROW NOOK WwTW Simonswood Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities SKELMERSDALE WwTW River Douglas 0 0h -

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.