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Wirral West was polluted by sewage 740 times in 2023
lasting 6,980 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Wirral West in 2023

20 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, United Utilities

740 sewage dumps
6,980 h duration

That's 9.69 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Wirral West

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wirral West in 2023. 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 1 of the total 22 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Arrowe Brook	97 WOOD LANE CSO	201	3,469	59.6
United Utilities	Liverpool Bay	NORTH WIRRAL WWTW	175	1,424	100
United Utilities	River Dee Estuary	CROFT DRV SHORE RD CSO CALDY 512RB	37	900	56.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Dee Estuary	HESWALL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	46	525	99.7
United Utilities	Arrowe Brook River Birkett	WOOD LANE/GLENTREE CLOSE CSO	36	165	100
United Utilities	Arrowe Brook River Birket	ARROWEBROOK LANE CSO	65	133	68.9
United Utilities	Prenton Brook	BARNSTON STORM TANK 51070	21	81	100
United Utilities	Newton Brook	REAR OF 65 FULTON AVE CSO 5130R	32	74	96.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Dee Estuary	HESWALL STORAGE TANK CSO HESWALL	13	38	100
United Utilities	Greasby Brook	FRANKBY CLOSE CSO 513MM	24	36	100
United Utilities	Greasby Brook Arrow Brook	WHITEBEAM WALK CSO 513PX	25	32	100
United Utilities	River Dee	LONG HEY ROAD CSO	12	27	100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Dee	COTTAGE LANE PUMPING STATION	6	22	100
United Utilities	Arrowe Brook	OUTSIDE 81 WODLANE CSO 513OI	18	22	100
United Utilities	Arrowe Brook	GREASBY ROAD/CORTSWAY CSO 511WQ	8	15	99.5
United Utilities	Thornton Hough, Clatter	THORNTON HOUGH PUMPING STATION	10	5	70.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Dee	GAYTON PARKWAY CSO	5	3	100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Unnamed To River Dee	GAYTON CEDARWAY PUMPING STATION	2	0	56.9
United Utilities	Newton Brook	ENNISDALE DRIVE CSO	3	0	97.8
United Utilities	Irish Sea	STANLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Pipe To River Dee	HESWALL SEABANK ROAD	0	0	0
United Utilities	Newton Brook River Birket	BLACK HORSE HILL CSO 511EV	0	0	100

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. This 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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