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Rochdale

Polluted by sewage 1,122 times in 2025 lasting 4,720 hours

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Totals for Rochdale in 2025

39 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,122 sewage dumps

4,720 hours duration

That's 6.56 months. On average 3.1 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rochdale 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 place 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 Roch	ROCHDALE WWTW	104	1,503	100
United Utilities	River Roch	OAKENROD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	87	508	100
United Utilities	River Beal	ASHES LANE CSO	43	331	99.8
United Utilities	Trub Brook River Irwell	CASTLETON WWTW CSTLT	45	317	100
United Utilities	Clvrt Sec Of Sudden Brook	OLDHAM ROAD CSO 35027	84	240	99.7
United Utilities	River Roch	SUDDEN VALLEY SEWER	83	235	100
United Utilities	River Spodden, River Roch	FOOTWOOD / SPODDEN VALLEY CSO	35	218	99.8
United Utilities	River Roch	SMITH BRIDGE ROAD CSO 35051	20	158	100
United Utilities	River Roch	HOOLEY BRIDGE CSO	39	140	99.6
United Utilities	River Roch	ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO	73	138	99.9
United Utilities	River Spodden	SPOTLAND BRIDGE CSO 35035	51	127	99.7
United Utilities	Trub Brook	CASTLETON SOUTH JUNCTION CSO	40	122	96
United Utilities	Sanney Brook	BELFIELD ROAD/BESWICKE ROYDS ST CSO	40	93	99.7
United Utilities	Suddon Brook	HARTLEY LANE CSO	45	77	99.2
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	MILNROW ROAD/FISHWICK STREET CSO	55	75	99.8
United Utilities	Unknown	NORDEN/BAMFORD OUTFALL SEWER	22	73	99.6
United Utilities	River Roch	MILLGATE CSO 35025	26	52	97.6
United Utilities	Culverted River Roch	OAKCLIFFE ROAD CSO	26	51	99.8
United Utilities	Hey Brook River Roch	YORKSHIRE ST OSWALD ST CSO 35024	31	51	98.8
United Utilities	River Roch	SMITH ST AND JOHN ST CSO 35021	34	47	98.9
United Utilities	Ash Brook	WATERHOUSE CLOSE (WARDLE) CSO	20	22	91.5
United Utilities	Stanney Brook	NEWBOLD STREET CSO	26	21	99.8
United Utilities	Lord Burn, River Roch	ST MARYS GATE/CHEETHAM STREET CSO	21	15	92.7
United Utilities	River Roch	ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO	2	14	90.8
United Utilities	Stanney Brook	STANNEY ROAD CSO	4	12	99.6
United Utilities	River Roch	YORKSHIRE STREET CSO 35022	5	11	93.4
United Utilities	River Roch	WATER STREET CSO	1	11	99.6
United Utilities	Culverted River Roch Via Sws	DRAKE STREET CSO (35038)	8	10	99.7
United Utilities	Healey Dell	ROOLEY MOOR RD W51	7	8	91.2
United Utilities	River Spodden	STATION ROAD (WHITWORTH) CSO	2	7	100
United Utilities	River Roch	TOAD LANE - HIGH STREET CSO	9	5	99.8
United Utilities	Naden Brook	EDENFIELD ROAD CSO	1	3	100
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	MANCHESTER RD CSO (351TT)	11	2	100
United Utilities	Ash Brook	DYEHOUSE LANE CSO	11	1	99.4
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	MILNROW ROAD/PINE STREET CSO	5	0	96.7
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	TRAFALGAR STREET /RAMSEY STREET CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	Moss Brook, River Roch	MILNROW ROAD/FISHWICK STREET CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	Naden Brook R Roch	745 EDENFIELD ROAD CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Foxholes Brook	GREENBANK ROAD/ROSSALL ROAD CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Unknown	MARLAND HILL SSO	0	0	99
United Utilities	River Spodden	MELLOR STREET CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Hey Brook Via Sws	BOND ST CSO	0	0	96.6

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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