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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Altrincham and Sale West in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.
Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Sinderland Brook | ALTRINCHAM STW | 57 | 346 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin | POOL BANK FARM BOWDON CSO 452L6 | 71 | 286 | 83.5 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin | DUNHAM MASSEY STW | 43 | 237 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin | PARK ROAD ARTHOG ROAD CSO 452LS | 74 | 203 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin Via Sws | DUNHAM MASSEY OUTFALL CSO (451SS) | 43 | 166 | 95.4 |
| United Utilities | Stromford Brook Via Sws | MANOR AVENUE CSO (45056) | 74 | 107 | 95.6 |
| United Utilities | Timperley Brook | BROOK CLOSE CSO | 23 | 83 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | Timperley Brook | GOLF ROAD PUMPING STATION | 35 | 78 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin | BARROW LANE CSO (451G7) | 52 | 70 | 96.1 |
| United Utilities | Timperley Brook | OAKFIELD ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 26 | 48 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Stromford Brk Rvr Mersey | THE AVENUE SYPHON CSO 452UO | 24 | 41 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Timperley Brook | STAMFORD NEW ROAD CSO | 28 | 27 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Manchester Ship Canal | PARKGATE FARM (WARBURTON) CSO | 22 | 23 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | Stromford Brook | MANOR AVENUE/FIRS ROAD CSO | 6 | 11 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Sinderland Brook | ALTRINHAM WWTW HIGH LEVEL OVERFLOW | 4 | 5 | 97.4 |
| United Utilities | Timperley Brook | BALFOUR ROAD CSO | 3 | 1 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin | CHAPEL LANE | 2 | 0 | 69.8 |
| United Utilities | River Bollin Via Sws | CECIL ROAD/ASHLEY ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Timperley Brook | HAWTHORN ROAD CSO 451YJ | 2 | 0 | 100 |
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.
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