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River Mersey Estuary polluted by sewage 1,294 times in 2025 - lasting 7,192 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River 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 River Mersey Estuary BROMBOROUGH WWTW 216 2,092 99.95
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary LIVERPOOL WWTW 178 996 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary WALLASEY WW PUMPING STATION 212 907 99.97
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary DOCK ROAD SOUTH CSO 86 726 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary WIDNES WWTW 89 693 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary OS 49 ST ANDREWS ROAD CSO 38028 70 452 99.2
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary MAYFIELD DRIVE PS1 CSO 512EZ 79 402 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary OPPOSITE 53 MOOR LANE CSO 382G6 42 190 99.1
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary DOCK ROAD SOUTH CSO 46 189 94.3
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary O/S51 MOORLAND AVE CSO 382G6 67 157 99.7
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary TANHOUSE LANE 43 115 94.4
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary COLLEGE ROAD ESHE ROAD CSO 38109 38 83 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary MACDERMOTT ROAD PUMPING STATION 7 80 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary DIBBS LANE CSO 381RT 37 45 99
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary O/S 107 LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO 382D3 20 27 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary OUTSIDE 16 CORONATION RD CSO 381PQ 7 6 99.2
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary THE BYPASS/LPOOL RD JUNCT CSO 382UR 9 4 76.4
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary FULWOOD CSO 7 4 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary BEACONS GUTTER SSO 10 4 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary RIMROSE BROOK CSO 10 3 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary DIBBS LANE CSO 381RT 9 3 97.3
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary BOOTLE NORTHERN OPC CSO 99102 9 2 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary PARK STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 0 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary MILLERS BRIDGE CSO 99004 0 0 100
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary WALLASEY COASTAL DRIVE 51052 0 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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