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River Mersey polluted by sewage 1,256 times in 2025 - lasting 5,912 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Mersey BURTON ROAD WITHINGTON CSO 28056 75 1,716 80.4
United Utilities River Mersey STOCKPORT WWTW 100 632 100
United Utilities River Mersey BARLOW MOOR ROAD 79 516 97.2
United Utilities River Mersey STRETFORD WWTW 31 382 100
United Utilities River Mersey DESOTO ROAD CSO (201RQ) 57 346 99.6
United Utilities River Mersey WITHINGTON PUMPING STATION 28009 67 329 100
United Utilities River Mersey 650YDS DS KINGWAY RVR BRIDGE CSO 48 219 99.8
United Utilities River Mersey CARRINGTON RD 53 210 100
United Utilities River Mersey HOPE STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 84 184 99.3
United Utilities River Mersey WALWYN CLOSE CSO 45049 55 140 99
United Utilities River Mersey BRADLEY LANE (SRETFORD) CSO 34 136 86.7
United Utilities River Mersey KINGSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 70 133 99.8
United Utilities River Mersey WELLINGTON ROAD SOUTH CSO 50 115 66.8
United Utilities River Mersey PRINCES STREET CSO 54 113 99.6
United Utilities River Mersey THE CIRCUIT CSO 432UT 56 101 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey PRINCES PRKWAY/M60 CSO 28051 20 100 99.4
United Utilities River Mersey TRAVIS BROW/GEORGES ROAD CSO 56 86 99.8
United Utilities River Mersey PADDINGTON PS 48028 29 64 96
United Utilities River Mersey SLEDMOOR ROAD CSO 34 59 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey THEWLIS STREET CSO 37 58 68.5
United Utilities River Mersey LIME TREE CLOSE CSO 11 46 99.1
United Utilities River Mersey DANEFIELD ROAD CSO 45052 16 40 100
United Utilities River Mersey HEATON MOOR CSO 431YX 17 24 97.1
United Utilities River Mersey KENWORTHY LANE PS 9 24 93.5
United Utilities River Mersey WHARF STREET CSO 2 23 79.6
United Utilities River Mersey BRIGHTON ROAD CSO 28 21 97
United Utilities River Mersey FLIXTON ROAD CSO 9 17 98.4
United Utilities River Mersey BRINKSWAY BRIDGE/GVILLE STREET CSO 2 13 99.5
United Utilities River Mersey CARRINGTON LANE 11 11 99.6
United Utilities River Mersey WESTY FLUMES 1 SOUTH CSO 489CB 8 10 100
United Utilities River Mersey CHESTERGATE CSO 431A3 6 9 99.8
United Utilities River Mersey 95/97 CRAIG ROAD HEATON MERSEY CSO 5 6 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey TRENTHAM P.S 18 4 100
United Utilities River Mersey CHESTERGATE/KING STREET WEST CSO 5 2 98
United Utilities River Mersey DARESBURY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 1 96.9
United Utilities River Mersey BARLOW MOOR RD/PALATINE RD CSO 1 1 58.5
United Utilities River Mersey BANKHALL CSO 99007 LIV0038 6 1 100
United Utilities River Mersey STRAND ROAD STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 2 1 100
United Utilities River Mersey 103 BRINKSWAY/LARK HILL 5 0 99.7
United Utilities River Mersey MAYFIELDS DRIVE WW NTWK PS 0 0 85.5

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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