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River Tame polluted by sewage 1,554 times in 2025 - lasting 7,539 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tame in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Tame MOSSLEY STW 108 1,093 99.2
United Utilities River Tame DENTON TRANSFER PUMPING STATION 135 896 99.9
United Utilities River Tame SADDLEWORTH WWTW 53 868 100
United Utilities River Tame ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE STW 77 811 99.9
United Utilities River Tame DUKINFIELD WWTW 103 745 100
United Utilities River Tame HYDE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 87 405 97.7
United Utilities River Tame MEADOW LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 67 256 100
United Utilities River Tame BROOMSTAIR ROAD CSO 43 253 98.2
United Utilities River Tame GROVE ROAD CSO 71 246 99.6
United Utilities River Tame TURNER LANE/ALEXANDRA ROAD 77 208 99.3
United Utilities River Tame WHARF STREET CSO 44184 59 202 99.9
United Utilities River Tame ST ANNES SQUARE CSO 42 179 98.6
United Utilities River Tame TAME STREET/PARK ROAD CSO 50 178 86.3
United Utilities River Tame SHERIDAN WAY CSO 44179 48 170 99.7
United Utilities River Tame PENNY LANE GRIMESBOTTOM CSO 43122 35 137 99.7
United Utilities River Tame RAGLAN STREET CSO 44180 58 135 100
United Utilities River Tame POTTINGER ST/OXFORD ST 55 120 99.1
United Utilities River Tame LOWER WHARF ST/SCOTLAND ST 60 110 100
United Utilities River Tame LOWER WHARF STREET CSO 442EC 66 103 98.5
United Utilities River Tame CLIFTON HOLMES CSO 46 62 94.6
United Utilities River Tame OFF GIBRALTER LANE CSO 55 61 99.3
United Utilities River Tame DELPH NEW ROAD/STATION APPROACH CSO 14 52 96.2
United Utilities River Tame HYDE ROAD (DENTON) CSO 40 50 99.8
United Utilities River Tame ROACHES LOCK CSO 24 36 100
United Utilities River Tame GRASSCROFT SEWAGE SCHEME 9 35 96.5
United Utilities River Tame MANOR ROAD PUMPING STATION 10 28 72.1
United Utilities River Tame DOBCROSS NEW ROAD CSO 4 13 99.9
United Utilities River Tame BRINNINGTON RISE CSO 431GD 4 12 99.4
United Utilities River Tame RASSBOTTOM STREET CSO 3 11 98.6
United Utilities River Tame WAKELING RD/STOCKPORT RD 1 8 99.9
United Utilities River Tame MILL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 7 99.7
United Utilities River Tame OFF MANOR ROAD CSO 442JF 6 6 99.9
United Utilities River Tame BINNS STREET CSO 1 5 99.8
United Utilities River Tame APETHORN LANE 2 5 99.8
United Utilities River Tame DUKINFIELD OUTFALL SEWER CSO 441SM 5 5 86.4
United Utilities River Tame OFF FOXHOLES ROAD CSO 10 3 99.8
United Utilities River Tame MANCHESTER ROAD CSO 18 3 99.7
United Utilities River Tame KNOWLE STREET CSO 442BX 2 2 100
United Utilities River Tame WAGGON ROAD CSO 2 1 92.6
United Utilities River Tame TRINITY ST/DEAN ST 3 1 100
United Utilities River Tame EAST GREENFIELD CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Tame HOREST LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 78.7
United Utilities River Tame MANCHESTER ROAD (GREENFIELD) CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Tame MARKET STREET/TRINITY STREET CSO 0 0 99.5
United Utilities River Tame MELBOURNE STREET 0 0 99.4
United Utilities River Tame ST GEORGE STREET/HANOVER STREET CSO 0 0 98

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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