River Mersey polluted by sewage 1,782 times in 2023 - lasting 8,427 hours

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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Mersey in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Mersey 650YDS DS KINGWAY RVR BRIDGE CSO 132 1,622 89.5
United Utilities River Mersey STOCKPORT WWTW 169 1,019 100
United Utilities River Mersey BARLOW MOOR ROAD 111 782 100
United Utilities River Mersey DANEFIELD ROAD CSO 45052 49 768 83.3
United Utilities River Mersey DESOTO ROAD CSO (201RQ) 78 668 97.4
United Utilities River Mersey BRADLEY LANE (SRETFORD) CSO 85 659 63
United Utilities River Mersey CARRINGTON RD 82 522 100
United Utilities River Mersey WITHINGTON PUMPING STATION 28009 127 492 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey WESTY FLUMES 1 SOUTH CSO 489CB 74 325 90.7
United Utilities River Mersey PRINCES PRKWAY/M60 CSO 28051 50 250 97.7
United Utilities River Mersey WALWYN CLOSE CSO 45049 103 232 92.3
United Utilities River Mersey STRETFORD WWTW 29 220 100
United Utilities River Mersey TRAVIS BROW/GEORGES ROAD CSO 110 213 99.3
United Utilities River Mersey WELLINGTON ROAD SOUTH CSO 86 186 100
United Utilities River Mersey KINGSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 93 98 91
United Utilities River Mersey THE CIRCUIT CSO 432UT 68 78 97
United Utilities River Mersey BARLOW MOOR RD/PALATINE RD CSO 21 64 100
United Utilities River Mersey PRINCES STREET CSO 73 42 100
United Utilities River Mersey BRIGHTON ROAD CSO 51 31 100
United Utilities River Mersey BURTON ROAD WITHINGTON CSO 28056 3 28 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey LIME TREE CLOSE CSO 15 26 60.2
United Utilities River Mersey HEATON MOOR CSO 431YX 27 25 100
United Utilities River Mersey STRAND ROAD STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 9 12 99.5
United Utilities River Mersey CARRINGTON LANE 6 10 100
United Utilities River Mersey FLIXTON ROAD CSO 8 9 100
United Utilities River Mersey TRENTHAM P.S 48 7 100
United Utilities River Mersey SLEDMOOR ROAD CSO 24 7 99.5
United Utilities River Mersey THEWLIS STREET CSO 15 7 100
United Utilities River Mersey CHESTERGATE CSO 431A3 5 6 100
United Utilities River Mersey DARESBURY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 1 100
United Utilities River Mersey 95/97 CRAIG ROAD HEATON MERSEY CSO 6 1 100
United Utilities River Mersey BANKHALL CSO 99007 LIV0038 10 1 99.7
United Utilities River Mersey CHESTERGATE/KING STREET WEST CSO 3 0 100
United Utilities River Mersey BRINKSWAY BRIDGE/GVILLE STREET CSO 2 0 100
United Utilities River Mersey MAYFIELDS DRIVE WW NTWK PS 0 0 0
United Utilities River Mersey 103 BRINKSWAY/LARK HILL 0 0 100
United Utilities River Mersey PADDINGTON PS 48028 0 0 0
United Utilities River Mersey WHARF STREET CSO 0 0 42.6
United Utilities River Mersey KENWORTHY LANE PS 0 0 0

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.

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