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Mersey Estuary polluted by sewage 516 times in 2025 - lasting 1,689 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Mersey Estuary in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Mersey Estuary WARRINGTON NORTH WWTW 68 560 99.95
United Utilities Mersey Estuary MERSEY VIEW ROAD CSO 44 222 99.8
United Utilities Mersey Estuary SOUTHERN RELIEF CSO 46 159 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary THE DELL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 50 157 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary ST ANDREWS ROAD/ST MICHAEL CSO 58 154 92.8
United Utilities Mersey Estuary DINGLE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 39 68 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary GARSTON CSO LIVERPOOL 23 62 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary WOODSIDE CSO 14 60 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary WALLACRE ROAD CSO 31 56 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary BANKHALL RELIEF CSO 99005 20 39 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary EASTHAM VILLAGE CSO 25 29 99.8
United Utilities Mersey Estuary ST PAUL'S ROAD CSO 31 29 98.8
United Utilities Mersey Estuary MERSEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 12 23 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary THERMAL ROAD/PORT CAUSEWAY CSO 22 23 99.8
United Utilities Mersey Estuary JERICHO LANE CSO 6 19 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary GRASSENDALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 16 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary ST NICHOLAS STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 7 3 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary BROMBOROUGH POOL VILLAGE PS 51026 1 1 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary SANDHILLS LANE CSO 3 1 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary GOWER ST/KINGS DOCK CSO 4 0 100
United Utilities Mersey Estuary BATTERY LANE CSO 2 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. 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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