Top of the Poops | Constituency | Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton| Polluted by United Utilities

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Live data for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 404 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton in 2024

22 Sites polluted by United Utilities

540 sewage dumps

1,837 hours duration

That's 2.55 months. On average 1.5 times a day

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Waterways in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton 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 22 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Wince Brook	OLDHAM WWTW	41	460	100
United Utilities	River Irk	ROYTON SETTLED STORM OVERFLOW	39	424	79.2
United Utilities	Moston Brook	ALFORD STREET PUMPING STATION	36	190	100
United Utilities	Springs Brook	SWAN MILL/DRUMMER MILL CSO	77	168	98.3
United Utilities	Wince Brook	S. CHADDERTON/	40	155	13.3
United Utilities	Wince Brook	FOXDENTON LANE CSO	58	88	99
United Utilities	Plumpton Clough	SHEEPFOOT LANE CSO	53	68	99.2
United Utilities	Wince Brook	THE CAUSEWAY CHADDERTON WWNPS	17	54	90.6
United Utilities	Wince Brook	MOSTON RD/ CHADDERTON LOW LEVEL PS	28	49	96
United Utilities	Moston Brook Via Sws	LIMESIDE ROAD/FOX MILL CSO	21	35	92.5
United Utilities	Wince Brook	GREENGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	31	34	100
United Utilities	River Medlock Via Sws	COAL PIT LANE CSO	17	29	99
United Utilities	Stock Brook Via Sws	ARKWRIGHT STREET CSO	29	28	100
United Utilities	Luzley Brrok	HOLDEN FOLD LANE CSO	13	11	99.5
United Utilities	Plumpton Clough	WESTHULME HOSPITAL CSO	7	7	99.3
United Utilities	Stock Brook Culvert Via Sws	HUNT LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	9	7	100
United Utilities	Spring Brook Via Sws	FERNEYFIELD ROAD CSO OLD0104	6	6	99.4
United Utilities	Lords Brook	HOLLINWOOD CEMETERY CSO	5	5	94
United Utilities	Bower Brook Via Sws	SUFFOLK ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	3	99.8
United Utilities	River Medlock	HATHERSHAW CSO	1	2	95.7
United Utilities	Lords Brook	LIMESIDE RD/CHURCH CSO	4	2	98.7
United Utilities	Plumpton Clough	BOUNDARY PARK ROAD CSO	7	1	99.4

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Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton Polluted by sewage 540 times in 2024 lasting 1,837 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton