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Live data for Salford in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Aug 2026, 08:15) there has been 274 hours of sewage overflows, from 67 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Salford in 2025

26 Sites polluted by United Utilities

653 sewage dumps

1,367 hours duration

That's 1.9 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Salford 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	River Irwell	CLIFTON PUMPING STATION	69	297	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	84	278	96.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	AGECROFT POWER STATION CSO	73	124	97.8
United Utilities	Slack Brook	CSO ADJ TO NUMBER 214 RAKE LANE	19	73	100
United Utilities	Slack Brook	CITY WALK PS	34	63	99.9
United Utilities	Gilda Brook	LANCASTER RD RADCLIFFE RD CSO 372CC	50	56	99.4
United Utilities	Slack Brook Via Suface Water S	QUEENSWAY CSO	14	49	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK	9	48	100
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Sws	ROBIN HOOD CLIFTON PUMPING STATION	7	45	97.4
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	CLOWES ST/DANIEL ADAMSON ROAD CSO	37	44	99.3
United Utilities	Slack Brook	MERE DRIVE / RAKE LANE CSO (374Y5)	14	41	99.9
United Utilities	Folly Brook	WELWYN DRIVE CSO 37044	77	38	98.5
United Utilities	River Irwell	LANGLEY ROAD CSO	32	33	99.9
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Sws	LAUNDRY ST/DUCHY RD CSO	27	33	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	COTTENHAM LANE CSO 372RZ	8	28	99.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	GREAT CLOWES CSO 37048 SAL0080	35	25	99.7
United Utilities	River Irwell	FREDERICK ROAD CSO (371UV)	10	24	96.4
United Utilities	Deans Brook Folly Bk	REAR OF 256 DALES BROW CSO	21	22	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	CLIFTON HOUSE ROAD PUMPING STATION	2	15	99.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	AGECROFT COMMERCE PARK PUMPING STN	1	8	100
United Utilities	Folly Brook Via A Sws	IN FIELDS REAR OF 36 EAST DRIVE CSO	5	3	99.8
United Utilities	Folly Brook Via Sws	PARK ST/SWINTON HALL ROAD CSO	8	3	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	HANKINSON WAY CSO	5	3	94.5
United Utilities	River Irwell	LANGLEY RD NORTH CSO	5	1	95.9
United Utilities	River Irwell	CROMWELL ROAD/LICHFIELD STREET CSO	5	0	100
United Utilities	Folly Brook Via Sws	DORCHESTER RD ADJ NO 182 MANCH CSO	2	0	96.8
United Utilities	Gilda Brook	LANCASTER ROAD/HAYFIELD ROAD TANK	0	0	100

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.

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