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Polluted by sewage 69 times in 2024 lasting 102 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:15 AM) there has been 70 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Manchester Rusholme, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Manchester Rusholme in 2024. 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 1 of the total 10 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws | ROLLS CRESCENT/YEW STREET CSO | 18 | 45 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws | STRETFORD RD/UPPER MOSS LN JUNC CSO | 9 | 17 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | River Medlock Via Sws | OXFORD ROAD/GROSVENOR STREET CSO | 21 | 16 | 91.8 |
| United Utilities | Clvrt Section Of Corn Brook | VAUGHAN STREET CSO | 8 | 8 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Gore Brook | 161 A DICKENSON ROAD CSO | 5 | 6 | 99.5 |
| United Utilities | River Medlock Via Sws | MANCUNIAN WAY CSO | 7 | 6 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Platt Brook Via Sws | PLATT LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 1 | 1 | 46.3 |
| United Utilities | Gore Brook Via Sws | BIRCH HALL LN THORESWAY RD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Ouel Brook | 3 WOOD RD | 0 | 0 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | Corn Brook In Culvert | VAUGHAN STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 83.1 |
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.
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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