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Cheadle

Polluted by sewage 352 times in 2025 lasting 1,215 hours

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Live data for Cheadle in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 525 hours of sewage overflows, from 44 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Cheadle in 2025

18 Sites polluted by United Utilities
352 sewage dumps
1,215 hours duration
That's 1.69 months. 6.8 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cheadle 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 Spath Brook MOORFILED HALL CSO 432G4 53 374 99.3
United Utilities Carr Brook CARR WOOD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 83 241 94.5
United Utilities River Mersey 650YDS DS KINGWAY RVR BRIDGE CSO 48 219 99.8
United Utilities Micker Brook CHEADLE GOLF COURSE CSO (43198) 36 121 99.1
United Utilities Turves Brook, Micker Brook BILLY'S LANE CSO 26 55 99.2
United Utilities Gatley Brook Via Sws OUTSIDE 91 STYAL ROAD CSO 7 40 99.1
United Utilities Chorlton Brook MILL LANE CEMETERY CSO 15 31 96.1
United Utilities Micker Brook 258 COUNCILLOR LANE 6 23 100
United Utilities Lady Brook BRAMHALL ISLAND CSO 12 19 100
United Utilities Turves Brook, Micker Brk 59D TURVES ROAD CSO 432VY 8 16 100
United Utilities Spath Brook HALL MOSS LANE PS 2 14 100
United Utilities Carr Brook MOSS LANE ACRE LANE CSO 431AM 9 11 97.7
United Utilities Unknown ABNEY HALL 12 10 100
United Utilities Lady Brook 50 BRIDGE LANE BRAMHALL CSO 5 9 100
United Utilities Unknown BRAMHALL LN STH (NO 221) 11 8 90.1
United Utilities Carr Brook LANGDALE ROAD CSO 432KA 10 8 99.3
United Utilities Carr Brook Via Sws LUMB LANE CSO (432D0) 6 8 99.2
United Utilities Gatley Brook Via Sws ALTRINCHAM RD WESTEND AVE CSO 431BS 3 1 95.3
United Utilities Norbury Brook Via Sws CORFE CRESCENT CSO 0 0 99.7

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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