Top of the Poops | Constituency | Widnes and Halewood| Polluted by United Utilities

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Live data for Widnes and Halewood in 2025

So far this year (as of May 8, 2025, 6:30 PM) there has been 978 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Widnes and Halewood in 2024

21 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,072 sewage dumps

5,916 hours duration

That's 8.22 months. On average 2.9 times a day

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Waterways in Widnes and Halewood

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Widnes and Halewood, 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 Widnes and Halewood 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 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	River Mersey Estuary	WIDNES WWTW	167	1,711	100
United Utilities	Ditton Brook	HUYTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	111	1,061	100
United Utilities	River Mersey	DESOTO ROAD CSO (201RQ)	89	634	98.8
United Utilities	Mersey Estuary	MERSEY VIEW ROAD CSO	69	421	99.9
United Utilities	Ram'S Brook	HALE VILLAGE PUMPING STATION	60	301	100
United Utilities	Halewood Brook	WOOLTON STW	53	295	82.05
United Utilities	Stewards Brook	ALEXANDER DRIVE CSO	81	235	99.5
United Utilities	River Mersey Via Sws	FRENCH STREET CSO 201UW	51	195	81.3
United Utilities	Longwood Mill Brook	WHISTON PARK (ECCLESTON PK) CSO	43	159	100
United Utilities	Ditton Brook	HARRISON STREET CSO	33	158	99.2
United Utilities	River Mersey Via Sws	GORSEY LANE DANS RD CSO 201V6	92	151	98.5
United Utilities	River Mersey Via Sws	DANS ROAD WEATES CLOSE CSO 201Q2	33	118	98
United Utilities	Ditton Brook	ASH LANE CSO	15	116	13.4
United Utilities	Lady Pool	HALE ROAD / DINNER LANE CSO	21	99	98.5
United Utilities	Ditton Brook Via Sws	EVERITE ROAD CSO	52	72	99.2
United Utilities	Bowers Brook	WARRINGTON ROAD CSO	26	62	98.9
United Utilities	River Mersey Estuary	MACDERMOTT ROAD PUMPING STATION	17	61	100
United Utilities	Bowers Brook	ESTER STREET CAR PARK CSO 203DR	25	41	98.4
United Utilities	Bowers Brook	SPIKE ISLAND ACCESS RD CSO (202RW)	29	11	99.5
United Utilities	Mersey Estaury	HALEWOOD PUMPING STATION	4	2	100
United Utilities	Barrows Green Brook Sws	DERBY RD BARROWS LANE CSO 203DC	1	2	97.8
United Utilities	River Mersey Estuary	TANHOUSE LANE	0	0	0
United Utilities	Ditton Brook	LOWER RD PS	0	0	78.1

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EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

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Widnes and Halewood Polluted by sewage 1,072 times in 2024 lasting 5,916 hours Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

Widnes and Halewood