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Wigan - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 197 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 8 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Wigan 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 - 48 hours , 0 offline
Feb - 70 hours , 4 offline
Mar - 51 hours , 1 offline
Apr - 7 hours , 0 offline
May - 19 hours , 3 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Irvine's Farm CSO Ackhurst Brook R Douglas 36 62h 29m -
United Utilities Central Park CSO River Douglas 28 30h 10m -
United Utilities Wigan Road Shevington CSO Mill Brook 20 27h 54m -
United Utilities Chorley Road M.H E36 Standish River Douglas 22 25h 56m 1 h
United Utilities Close Brook CSO Close Brook R Douglas 7 12h 18m -
United Utilities Gathurst PS River Douglas 17 11h 32m -
United Utilities Gower Street CSO River Douglas 9 9h -
United Utilities Bradley Lane CSO River Mersey 12 5h 52m 0 h
United Utilities Gathurst Lane (Shevington) CSO Pendleton Brook By Sws 11 4h 30m -
United Utilities WIG0165A South of Ball Street CSO River Douglas Via Sws 10 4h 2m 2 h
United Utilities ST MARYS ROAD CSO Of Ince Brook Via Sws 7 1h 54m 1 h
United Utilities Bradshaw Street CSO River Douglas Via Sws 2 0h 56m -
United Utilities Arbour Lane Pumping Station (50033) (WIG0029 ) Mill Brook 2 0h 46m -
United Utilities Lynton Avenue CSO Culverted River Douglas 4 0h 28m 3 h
United Utilities Beech Hill Lane CSO Billy Pit Brook Lpool Canal 1 0h 6m -
United Utilities Springfield Road CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities WIG0165A South of Ball Street CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Greenwood Avenue CSO Close Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Irvine's Farm CSO Ackhurst Brook R Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Gathurst Lane (Shevington) CSO Pendleton Brook By Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities NW Junction Woodhouse Lane CSO River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities ORMSKIRK ROAD / FRANCE STREET CSO River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities ORMSKIRK ROAD / FRANCE STREET CSO River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities PLATT LANE CSO Platt Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Greenwood Avenue CSO Close Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lynton Avenue CSO Culverted River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Bradshaw Street CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities WESTMOORLAND STREET / SCHOLES CSO Clarington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chestnut Road CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities HOLLY STREET / NEW SPRINGS CSO Yellow Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities PLATT LANE CSO Platt Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Central Park CSO River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Close Brook CSO Close Brook R Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Bradley Lane CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Old Fold Road CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities WESTMOORLAND STREET / SCHOLES CSO Clarington Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities NW Junction Woodhouse Lane CSO River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Gower Street CSO River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities ST MARYS ROAD CSO Of Ince Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Chestnut Road CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Old Fold Road CSO Borsdane Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Chorley Road M.H E36 Standish River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Arbour Lane Pumping Station (50033) (WIG0029 ) Mill Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities HOLLY STREET / NEW SPRINGS CSO Yellow Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Beech Hill Lane CSO Billy Pit Brook Lpool Canal 0 0h -
United Utilities Wigan Road Shevington CSO Mill Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Gathurst PS River Douglas 0 0h -
United Utilities Springfield Road CSO River Douglas Via Sws 0 0h 0 h

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.