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Widnes and Halewood - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 468 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 34 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.

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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 , 34 offline
Jun - 0 hours
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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 23 190h 25m 0 h
United Utilities Everite Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 20046) (HAL0004) Lady Pool 33 59h 38m -
United Utilities DESOTO ROAD CSO River Mersey 20 56h 58m -
United Utilities Pickering Pasture SSO Mersey Estuary 19 42h 52m -
United Utilities Alexander Drive CSO Stewards Brook 27 38h 58m -
United Utilities French Street CSO River Mersey Via Sws 23 33h 44m -
United Utilities Gorsey Lane/Dan's Road River Mersey Via Sws 22 19h 32m 0 h
United Utilities Dans Road/Weates Close River Mersey Via Sws 6 7h 34m -
United Utilities Tan House Lane/ Moss Bank Road CSO River Mersey Estuary 6 6h 26m -
United Utilities Harrison Street CSO Ditton Brook 6 5h 44m -
United Utilities Hale Village PS Ram'S Brook 5 4h 36m 34 h
United Utilities Halewood Pumping Station (HALEW) (HAL0134) Ram'S Brook 2 1h 7m -
United Utilities SPIKE ISLAND ACCESS ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 1 0h 44m -
United Utilities Ester Street Car Park CSO Bowers Brook 2 0h 36m -
United Utilities LINK ROAD CSO Logwood Mill Brook Via Sws 1 0h 4m -
United Utilities Ester Street Car Park CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities SPIKE ISLAND ACCESS ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities French Street CSO River Mersey Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities WARRINGTON ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Derby Road/Barrows Green Lane Barrows Green Brook Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities WARRINGTON ROAD CSO Bowers Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Pickering Pasture SSO Mersey Estuary 0 0h -
United Utilities Lower Road PS Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Derby Road/Barrows Green Lane Barrows Green Brook Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Alexander Drive CSO Stewards Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Hale Road/Dinner Lane Lady Pool 0 0h -
United Utilities DESOTO ROAD CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Everite Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 20046) (HAL0004) Lady Pool 0 0h -
United Utilities Dans Road/Weates Close River Mersey Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Lower Road PS Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities MacDermott Road Pumping Station (formerly Dock Street PS) Copse Brook Culvert 0 0h -
United Utilities Tan House Lane/ Moss Bank Road CSO River Mersey Estuary 0 0h -
United Utilities Hale Village PS Ram'S Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities MacDermott Road Pumping Station (formerly Dock Street PS) Copse Brook Culvert 0 0h -
United Utilities Ash Lane Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Gorsey Lane/Dan's Road River Mersey Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Halewood Pumping Station (HALEW) (HAL0134) Ram'S Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Ash Lane Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities LINK ROAD CSO Logwood Mill Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Harrison Street CSO Ditton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Hale Road/Dinner Lane Lady Pool 0 0h -
United Utilities WIDNES WwTW River Mersey Estuary 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.

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