England · Environment Agency
Bispham
Monitored — no current concerns
Annual classification is Good, but no recent monitoring data — the most recent regulator sample is 8 weeks old. The 2026 bathing season runs 15 May – 30 September; fresh samples typically arrive 2-4 weeks into the season.
Low confidence — the classification is favourable, but the most recent regulator sample is not recent.
Status computed 2 Nov 2026, 06:43 UTC; statuses refresh every 15 minutes.
What we know
- Regulator classification
- Good
- Pollution risk forecast
- Normal (forecast expired)
- Active discharges
- None within 5km
- Recent discharges (last 48 hours)
- None within 5km
- Upstream river network
- None reported affecting this spot’s river reaches
- Surrounding overflow coverage
- Within an ingested water company network
- Monitoring season
- Currently in regulator monitoring season
Last sampled 6 September 2026 · 2 months ago. Source: Environment Agency.
Forecast expired 17 Oct 2026, 15:24 UTC — outside its 24-hour validity window. Source: Environment Agency.
Discharges traced through the river network by sewage-map.
Water body baseline
The Environment Agency classifies this water body (Mersey Mouth) as Moderate ecological status (2022 classification). That is a Water Framework Directive assessment of long-term ecosystem health — plants, invertebrates, fish, chemistry — not a bacteriological measure of whether the water is safe to swim in today. It is shown as context and plays no part in the verdict above.
The EA’s Catchment Data Explorer page for this water body →
Source: EA Catchment Data Explorer, Open Government Licence v3.0 — data as of 21 Aug 2026, 10:40 UTC.
What this verdict means
Monitored — no current concerns means the regulator's classification is favourable but no live discharge data covers this region, so a spill today would not show here. It is deliberately a softer signal than safe.
Every verdict here is computed from regulator classifications, sample dates, pollution-risk forecasts, and water-company discharge reports — it is not a water test. Absence of a negative signal is not positive confirmation of safety, and conditions on the day (rainfall, currents, cold) matter as much as water quality. Read how statuses are decided.