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River Douglas polluted by sewage 458 times in 2025 - lasting 2,297 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Douglas NR HARRISONS FARM 63 739 99.6
United Utilities River Douglas WIGAN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 33 477 100
United Utilities River Douglas MILL LANE CSO 49201 91 434 90.5
United Utilities River Douglas CENTRAL PARK CSO 50090 91 226 99.4
United Utilities River Douglas GOWER STREET CSO 50126 38 117 99.9
United Utilities River Douglas SKELMERSDALE WWTW SKELM 26 104 98.05
United Utilities River Douglas GATHURST LANE SHEVINGTON CSO 24 58 100
United Utilities River Douglas HARRISON ROAD WAGON AND HORSE CSO 43 55 99.5
United Utilities River Douglas GATHURST LANE SHEVINGTON CSO 29 44 91.1
United Utilities River Douglas GRIMEFORD LANE PS 12007 2 15 99.9
United Utilities River Douglas FAIRHURST DRIVE SPS 3 15 98.8
United Utilities River Douglas HESKETH LANE CSO 12 6 99.3
United Utilities River Douglas ORMSKIRK ROAD/FRANCE STREET CSO 2 0 100
United Utilities River Douglas NW JCT WOODHOUSE LANE 1 0 99.5

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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