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Polluted by sewage 211 times in 2024 lasting 1,053 hours
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Failsworth 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 locality all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Unknown | CLAYTON BRIDGE | 65 | 530 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Moston Brook | ALFORD STREET PUMPING STATION | 36 | 190 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Medlock | FAILSWORTH WWTW | 37 | 152 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Irk | KENYON LANE CSO | 33 | 131 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Moston Brook Via Sws | LIMESIDE ROAD/FOX MILL CSO | 21 | 35 | 92.5 |
| United Utilities | Clvrt River Mersey | ASSHETON ROAD CSO 281CA | 10 | 5 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | Lords Brook | HOLLINWOOD CEMETERY CSO | 5 | 5 | 94 |
| United Utilities | Lords Brook | LIMESIDE RD/CHURCH CSO | 4 | 2 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | River Medlock | CULCETH LANE CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Lords Brook | HOLT LANE FAILSWORTH SSO | 0 | 0 | 93.7 |
| United Utilities | Berry Brow Culvert | JUNCTION OF GRAVER LN ELSMA RD CSO | 0 | 0 | 77.1 |
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. 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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