Wigan polluted by sewage 1,054 times in 2022 - lasting 4,823 hours

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Totals for Wigan in 2022
19 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,054 sewage dumps
4,823 h duration
That's 6.7 months. On average 2.9 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wigan in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Douglas GATHURST LANE SHEVINGTON CSO 86 1,225 81.9
United Utilities River Douglas GATHURST LANE SHEVINGTON CSO 79 1,052 100
United Utilities Close Brook GREENWOOD AVENUE CSO 129 797 100
United Utilities Of Ince Brook Via Sws ST MARY'S ROAD CSO 127 465 100
United Utilities River Douglas CENTRAL PARK CSO 50090 117 281 99.9
United Utilities Mill Brook WIGAN ROAD CSO 50087 146 253 94
United Utilities Ackhurst Brook R Douglas IRVINES FARM CSO 91 240 99.9
United Utilities Close Brook R Douglas CLOSE BROOK CSO 28 174 98.7
United Utilities River Douglas GOWER STREET CSO 50126 72 115 99.75
United Utilities Billy Pit Brook Lpool Canal BEECH HILL LANE CSO 50089 13 46 77
United Utilities River Douglas CHORLEY RD, M.H. E36 37 43 100
United Utilities Poolstock Brook REAR OF 125 BAKER STREET CSO 24 30 100
United Utilities Borsdane Brook OLD FOLD ROAD CSO 3 30 95.5
United Utilities Mill Brook ARBOUR LANE PUMPING STATION 17 25 99.7
United Utilities Yellow Brook HOLLY STREET/NEW SPRINGS CSO 21 21 96.8
United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws BRADSHAW STREET CSO 26 12 97
United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws SPRINGFIELD ROAD CSO 21 3 95.7
United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws CHESTNUT ROAD CSO 15 3 100
United Utilities Clarington Brook PLATT LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 100
United Utilities River Douglas NW JCT WOODHOUSE LANE 0 0 0
United Utilities River Douglas ORMSKIRK ROAD/FRANCE STREET CSO 0 0 96.1
United Utilities Culverted River Douglas LYNTON AVENUE CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities R Douglas JNC OF BILLINGE RD /VICTORIA ST CSO 0 0 99
United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws SOUTH OF BALL STREET CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Clarington Brook WESTMOORLAND STREET/SCHOLES CSO 0 0 0

Data Sources & Accuracy

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

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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