Top of the Poops | Constituency | Blackley and Middleton South| Polluted by United Utilities

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Live data for Blackley and Middleton South in 2025

So far this year (as of May 9, 2025, 9:45 AM) there has been 514 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Blackley and Middleton South in 2024

36 Sites polluted by United Utilities

797 sewage dumps

1,635 hours duration

That's 2.27 months. On average 2.2 times a day

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Blackley and Middleton South, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blackley and Middleton South 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 constituency 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	River Irk	BOOTHROYDEN ROAD CSO	102	320	99.8
United Utilities	River Irk	MIDDLETON MAIN OUTFALL	71	212	99.9
United Utilities	River Irk	VICTORIA AVENUE/RIVER IRK CSO	14	131	99.5
United Utilities	River Irk	KENYON LANE CSO	33	131	99.1
United Utilities	Wince Brook, River Irk	KIRKWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	55	130	100
United Utilities	River Irk	MIDDLETON OLD ROAD CSO	46	126	97.9
United Utilities	River Irk	MOSTON LANE/ROCHDALE ROAD CSO	42	113	98.9
United Utilities	Boardman Brook	MAINWAY/WORCESTER ROAD CSO	31	94	98.8
United Utilities	River Irk	WATERLOO ST CRESCENT RD CSO	62	85	98.9
United Utilities	Wince Brook	WHITLEY DRIVE CSO	43	57	100
United Utilities	Culverted River Irk	MILL BROW/BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO	33	41	95.3
United Utilities	Culverted Section Moston Brook	POTTERS LANE CSO	24	31	99.8
United Utilities	River Irk	SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO	39	26	99
United Utilities	River Irk	CLEVELAND RD DELAUNAY RD CSO 288NJ	29	21	98.5
United Utilities	Moss Brook	QUEENS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	19	16	100
United Utilities	Wince Brook Via Sws	MAINWAYEAST/LINCOLN ROAD CSO	16	14	99
United Utilities	River Irk Via Sws	CHUDDLEIGH ROAD CSO	19	13	99.9
United Utilities	River Irk Via Birch Brook Clvr	KENDALL ROAD BLACKLEY CSO	21	10	99.4
United Utilities	River Irk	SMEDLEY ROAD CSO	14	9	100
United Utilities	A Culverted Section River Irk	MILL BROW/BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO	13	9	99.3
United Utilities	Boardman Brook	MANCHESTER NEW ROAD CSO	8	5	98.8
United Utilities	River Irk	MIDDLETON ROAD/VICTORIA AVENUE CSO	5	5	99.2
United Utilities	River Irk	GLENBROOK RD EXTER RD CSO 281VU	12	4	98.8
United Utilities	Moston Brook	LATHBURY ROAD/SILCHESTER DRIVE CSO	7	4	99.3
United Utilities	River Irk	SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO	8	3	100
United Utilities	River Irk	CLEVELAND RD DELAUNEYS RD CSO 281KK	8	3	98.5
United Utilities	River Irk	ROCHDALE RD/ALFRED ST CSO	6	2	86.3
United Utilities	River Irk	MANCHESTER OLD ROAD CSO	4	2	99.4
United Utilities	Culverted Section Moston Brook	QUEENS ROAD/SCORPTON STREET CSO	2	1	99.3
United Utilities	River Irk	CENTRAL AVENUE CSO	2	0	99
United Utilities	Culverted Moston Brook	MONSALL ROAD (J SEWER) CSO (282SF)	2	0	95.8
United Utilities	River Irk	QUEENS RD/HARDHAM VALE CSO	2	0	99.2
United Utilities	Moston Brook	ROCHDALE ROAD/EGGINGTON STREET CSO	2	0	99.3
United Utilities	River Irk	SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO	1	0	97.4
United Utilities	River Irk	DEXTER RD HEATON PARK RD CSO	1	0	99.3
United Utilities	River Irk	KINGSBRIDGE ROAD CSO (289BQ)	1	0	66
United Utilities	Moston Brook	WINDSOR ROAD/WINTERDYNE STREET CSO	0	0	93.9
United Utilities	River Irk Via Sws	VICTORIA AVENUE/GLENBROOK CSO	0	0	99.4
United Utilities	Boardman Brook	MOSSWAY CSO	0	0	75.1
United Utilities	Unnamed Watercourse	BRENTFORD STREET CSO	0	0	99
United Utilities	Moston Brook	LATHBURY ROAD ADJ TO FOOTPATH CSO	0	0	99.1
United Utilities	River Irk	HENDHAM VALE CSO	0	0	99.1
United Utilities	River Irk	BURTON ST NR DALTON ST CSO 281HX	0	0	98.9

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Blackley and Middleton South Polluted by sewage 797 times in 2024 lasting 1,635 hours

Blackley and Middleton South