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Unknown polluted by sewage 423 times in 2025 - lasting 3,035 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Unknown LABURNUM GROVE 102 1,772 94.3
United Utilities Unknown CHURCH ROAD 76 413 81.8
United Utilities Unknown BOLTON ROAD SSO 49 298 100
United Utilities Unknown CLAYTON BRIDGE 42 173 84.1
United Utilities Unknown LODGE RD, ORRELL(M.H. A4) 63 148 99.5
United Utilities Unknown NORDEN/BAMFORD OUTFALL SEWER 22 73 99.6
United Utilities Unknown VICARAGE ROAD 5 34 95.3
United Utilities Unknown WINDBOURNE CSO 7 20 100
United Utilities Unknown BARONS QUAY PS 3 18 100
United Utilities Unknown SOUTH OF PEEL TERRACE CSO 3 11 98.5
United Utilities Unknown PS AT BRYN GATES 2 11 93.7
United Utilities Unknown ABNEY HALL 12 10 100
United Utilities Unknown ST JOHNS RD 2 10 99.9
United Utilities Unknown BRAMHALL LN STH (NO 221) 11 8 90.1
United Utilities Unknown NR FOOTBRIDGE OVER BRK 1 8 87.8
United Utilities Unknown COWDE RD BR. 4 6 99.7
United Utilities Unknown COPSTER GREEN SEWER EJE 1 6 77.6
United Utilities Unknown WARRINGTON RD/WITHINGTON 1 4 99.4
United Utilities Unknown MANCHESTER ROAD SEWER 13 3 97
United Utilities Unknown WINDSOR GROVE 2 0 99.4
United Utilities Unknown CASTLE ST 1 0 99.9
United Utilities Unknown CRAB ST/DUKE ST 1 0 86.5
United Utilities Unknown PARK LANE D/S OF S.W. 0 0 100
United Utilities Unknown MARLAND HILL SSO 0 0 99
United Utilities Unknown CHESTER WAY 0 0 100
United Utilities Unknown PARK ROAD NORTH 0 0 83.6
United Utilities Unknown ANDERTON FIELD NO28 0 0 81.6

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.

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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