Widnes and Halewood - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,205 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 68 hours , potential overflows 5 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Widnes and Halewood 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.

Totals for Widnes and Halewood in 2026

Sewage1,205 hours
Monitoring offline68 hours
Potential pollution5 hours
Storm overflows42

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Daily Data

Jan - 56 hours , 0 offline
Feb - 317 hours , 0 potential
Mar - 73 hours
Apr - 1 hours
May - 20 hours , 33 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 114 hours , 0 potential
Sept - 199 hours , 3 potential
Oct - 422 hours , 1 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities WIDNES WwTW River Mersey Estuary 44 497h 16m 0 h
United Utilities DESOTO ROAD CSO River Mersey 36 135h 58m -
United Utilities Everite Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 20046) (HAL0004) Lady Pool 58 99h 54m -
United Utilities Pickering Pasture SSO Mersey Estuary 37 85h 3m 30 h
United Utilities French Street CSO River Mersey Via Sws 44 83h 46m -
United Utilities Alexander Drive CSO Stewards Brook 49 82h 14m -
United Utilities Gorsey Lane/Dan's Road River Mersey Via Sws 42 43h 54m 10 h
United Utilities Harrison Street CSO Ditton Brook 17 42h -
United Utilities Hale Village PS Ram'S Brook 18 29h 2m 33 h
United Utilities Tan House Lane/ Moss Bank Road CSO River Mersey Estuary 13 28h 26m -
United Utilities Dans Road/Weates Close River Mersey Via Sws 13 27h 56m -
United Utilities Ash Lane Ditton Brook 3 16h 2m -
United Utilities Lower Road PS Ditton Brook 2 8h 55m -
United Utilities MacDermott Road Pumping Station (formerly Dock Street PS) Copse Brook Culvert 5 8h 16m -
United Utilities Ester Street Car Park CSO Bowers Brook 8 6h 46m -
United Utilities WARRINGTON ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 5 4h 22m -
United Utilities Halewood Pumping Station (HALEW) (HAL0134) Ram'S Brook 3 2h 40m -
United Utilities SPIKE ISLAND ACCESS ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 5 2h 40m -
United Utilities LINK ROAD CSO Logwood Mill Brook Via Sws 4 0h 46m -
United Utilities French Street CSO River Mersey Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Halewood Pumping Station (HALEW) (HAL0134) Ram'S Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities LINK ROAD CSO Logwood Mill Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Everite Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 20046) (HAL0004) Lady Pool 0 0h -
United Utilities WARRINGTON ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities SPIKE ISLAND ACCESS ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Tan House Lane/ Moss Bank Road CSO River Mersey Estuary 0 0h -
United Utilities Ash Lane Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities WIDNES WwTW River Mersey Estuary 0 0h -
United Utilities Ester Street Car Park CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities DESOTO ROAD CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Dans Road/Weates Close River Mersey Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Pickering Pasture SSO Mersey Estuary 0 0h -
United Utilities Derby Road/Barrows Green Lane Barrows Green Brook Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities MacDermott Road Pumping Station (formerly Dock Street PS) Copse Brook Culvert 0 0h -
United Utilities Lower Road PS Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Harrison Street CSO Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Hale Road/Dinner Lane Lady Pool 0 0h -
United Utilities Derby Road/Barrows Green Lane Barrows Green Brook Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Hale Village PS Ram'S Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Gorsey Lane/Dan's Road River Mersey Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Alexander Drive CSO Stewards Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Hale Road/Dinner Lane Lady Pool 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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