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Stretford and Urmston

Polluted by sewage 835 times in 2025 lasting 4,152 hours

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Live data for Stretford and Urmston in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,699 hours of sewage overflows, from 83 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Stretford and Urmston in 2025

31 Sites polluted by United Utilities
835 sewage dumps
4,152 hours duration
That's 5.77 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stretford and Urmston 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 Manchester Ship Canal LOCK LANE PARTINGTON CSO 217 1,573 94.9
United Utilities Unknown CHURCH ROAD 76 413 81.8
United Utilities River Mersey STRETFORD WWTW 31 382 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DAVYHULME WWTW 34 227 97.8
United Utilities River Mersey CARRINGTON RD 53 210 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 25 193 100
United Utilities Red Brook PARTINGTON WWTW 40 180 96.2
United Utilities Bent Lanes Brook Via Sw Sewer LOSTOCK ROAD CSO 54 175 99.7
United Utilities River Mersey WALWYN CLOSE CSO 45049 55 140 99
United Utilities Longford Brk Bent Lanes Brk WOODHOUSE ROAD CSO 459BC 36 139 100
United Utilities River Mersey BRADLEY LANE (SRETFORD) CSO 34 136 86.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws PARK ROAD (STRETFORD) CSO 37 87 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey LIME TREE CLOSE CSO 11 46 99.1
United Utilities Riv. Mersey/Kickety Brook SOUTH OF PEEL TERRACE CSO 10 38 99.9
United Utilities Stromford Brook MANOR AVENUE CARRINGTON LANE CSO 24 36 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws TOWNSGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 28 99.8
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws TRAFFORD PARK ROAD CSO 8 22 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws LYTHAM ROAD CSO (452EF) 10 22 99.2
United Utilities Stromford Brook MANOR AVENUE PS 8 20 94.1
United Utilities River Mersey FLIXTON ROAD CSO 9 17 98.4
United Utilities Bent Lanes Brook/Longford Broo 329 BARTON ROAD CSO 19 15 99.6
United Utilities River Mersey CARRINGTON LANE 11 11 99.6
United Utilities Unknown SOUTH OF PEEL TERRACE CSO 3 11 98.5
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal NORTHUMBERLAND RD/STRETFORD RD CSO 4 7 84.2
United Utilities Longford Brook Ship Canal BRADWELL AVENUE CSO 4 4 96.5
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws ASHBURTON RD/CENTRAL PARK CSO 3 2 99.9
United Utilities Carrs Ditech WESTERN ROAD CSO 3 1 99.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DUMPLINGTON CIRCLE 2 0 91.2
United Utilities Longford Brook Ship Canal CASTLETON AVENUE CSO 451IU 3 0 99.8
United Utilities Longford Brook Via Sws LOSTOCK GROVE CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Bent Lane Brook PARK ROAD (STRETFORD) CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Longford Brook Ship Canal CROMFORD AVENUE CSO 451P7 0 0 100
United Utilities Longford Brook DAVYHULME ROAD EAST 0 0 99.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal FIRST AVENUE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON SSO 0 0 98.5

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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