Top of the Poops | Place | Walkden| Polluted by United Utilities

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Totals for Walkden in 2024

9 Sites polluted by United Utilities

296 sewage dumps

1,570 hours duration

That's 2.18 months. 5.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Walkden

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Walkden 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 1 of the total 10 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Little Hulton Stream	WORSLEY STW	158	949	100
United Utilities	Ellen Brook	VICARS HALL LANE PS NO 2	24	244	100
United Utilities	Shaw Brook	BOOTHS BANK FARM CSO (37046)	25	176	99.3
United Utilities	Ellen Brook Culvert	TYNESBANK	33	96	98.3
United Utilities	Ellen Brook	NEWEARTH ROAD CSO	29	51	100
United Utilities	Kempnough Brook	GREENLEACH LANE CSO	10	34	100
United Utilities	Honksford Brook	PARR BRIDGE/MOSLEY COMMON RD CSO	13	16	99.2
United Utilities	Sniggley Ditch	FIR TREE AVENUE PUMPING STATION	3	1	100
United Utilities	Singing Clough Brook	STONEHILL TRADING ESTATE CSO	1	0	99.2
United Utilities	Worsley Brook	WALKDEN RD HOLYOAKE RD CSO 37045	0	0	5

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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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Walkden Polluted by sewage 296 times in 2024 lasting 1,570 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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