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Runcorn

Polluted by sewage 382 times in 2025 lasting 2,555 hours

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Totals for Runcorn in 2025

16 Sites polluted by United Utilities
382 sewage dumps
2,555 hours duration
That's 3.55 months. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Runcorn in 2025. 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 place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Unknown LABURNUM GROVE 102 1,772 94.3
United Utilities M/C Ship Canal RUNCORN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 21 218 100
United Utilities River Weaver NEWTOWN PUMPING STATION 33 197 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal HARDWICK ROADCSO 34 99 99.8
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary MACDERMOTT ROAD PUMPING STATION 7 80 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal PENN LANE WESTON POINT PR CSO 202LE 48 67 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal HALTON BROW CSO 203EF 61 66 96.5
United Utilities River Weaver WATERSIDE DRIVE CSO 472H4 23 23 99.1
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal RUNCORN ROAD CSO 8 9 100
United Utilities Willow Brook RUNCORN TOWN HALL CSO 4 9 99.8
United Utilities River Mersey TRENTHAM P.S 18 4 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal THE BROW CSO 202UP 3 3 99.4
United Utilities River Mersey DARESBURY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 1 96.9
United Utilities River Weaver BRIDGE LANE QUAYSIDE CSO 7 1 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WATERLOO ROAD CSO (202ZW) 5 0 99.6
United Utilities Unknown WINDSOR GROVE 2 0 99.4
United Utilities Bridgewater Canal Via Sws DOWNS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws SALTWORKS PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.8
United Utilities Weaver Navigation SOUTH PARADE CSO 202S2 0 0 97.3

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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