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Blackley and Middleton South was polluted by sewage 1,272 times in 2023
lasting 3,865 hours

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Totals for Blackley and Middleton South in 2023
39 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,272 sewage dumps
3,865 h duration
That's 5.37 months. On average 3.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blackley and Middleton South in 2023. 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 0 of the total 43 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Irk Via Sws CHUDDLEIGH ROAD CSO 74 1,073 99.9
United Utilities River Irk BOOTHROYDEN ROAD CSO 124 558 99.9
United Utilities River Irk KENYON LANE CSO 95 486 98
United Utilities River Irk MIDDLETON MAIN OUTFALL 99 365 98
United Utilities River Irk MIDDLETON OLD ROAD CSO 83 288 100
United Utilities Wince Brook WHITLEY DRIVE CSO 74 200 99.9
United Utilities Wince Brook, River Irk KIRKWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 80 177 99.1
United Utilities River Irk SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 28 123 98
United Utilities Boardman Brook MAINWAY/WORCESTER ROAD CSO 42 121 100
United Utilities River Irk MOSTON LANE/ROCHDALE ROAD CSO 59 105 100
United Utilities River Irk CLEVELAND RD DELAUNAY RD CSO 288NJ 77 102 100
United Utilities Culverted River Irk MILL BROW/BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 57 48 100
United Utilities River Irk SMEDLEY ROAD CSO 28 35 100
United Utilities River Irk WATERLOO ST CRESCENT RD CSO 41 32 100
United Utilities River Irk SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 51 31 100
United Utilities Culverted Section Moston Brook POTTERS LANE CSO 33 21 96.4
United Utilities Moss Brook QUEENS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 42 19 100
United Utilities River Irk MIDDLETON ROAD/VICTORIA AVENUE CSO 7 17 100
United Utilities Moston Brook WINDSOR ROAD/WINTERDYNE STREET CSO 6 9 96.6
United Utilities A Culverted Section River Irk MILL BROW/BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 21 6 100
United Utilities River Irk VICTORIA AVENUE/RIVER IRK CSO 11 5 100
United Utilities River Irk ROCHDALE RD/ALFRED ST CSO 14 5 100
United Utilities River Irk CLEVELAND RD DELAUNEYS RD CSO 281KK 13 4 100
United Utilities Wince Brook Via Sws MAINWAYEAST/LINCOLN ROAD CSO 15 4 100
United Utilities River Irk Via Birch Brook Clvr KENDALL ROAD BLACKLEY CSO 16 4 100
United Utilities Moston Brook LATHBURY ROAD/SILCHESTER DRIVE CSO 14 3 100
United Utilities Boardman Brook MANCHESTER NEW ROAD CSO 9 2 100
United Utilities River Irk MANCHESTER OLD ROAD CSO 8 2 100
United Utilities River Irk GLENBROOK RD EXTER RD CSO 281VU 13 2 100
United Utilities Culverted Section Moston Brook QUEENS ROAD/SCORPTON STREET CSO 3 1 95.2
United Utilities River Irk QUEENS RD/HARDHAM VALE CSO 11 1 100
United Utilities River Irk DEXTER RD HEATON PARK RD CSO 8 0 100
United Utilities Culverted Moston Brook MONSALL ROAD (J SEWER) CSO (282SF) 4 0 100
United Utilities Moston Brook ROCHDALE ROAD/EGGINGTON STREET CSO 3 0 100
United Utilities River Irk CENTRAL AVENUE CSO 3 0 100
United Utilities River Irk SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 2 0 93.8
United Utilities River Irk BURTON ST NR DALTON ST CSO 281HX 2 0 99.9
United Utilities Moston Brook LATHBURY ROAD ADJ TO FOOTPATH CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities River Irk KINGSBRIDGE ROAD CSO (289BQ) 1 0 100
United Utilities Unnamed Watercourse BRENTFORD STREET CSO 0 0 97.8
United Utilities Boardman Brook MOSSWAY CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Irk Via Sws VICTORIA AVENUE/GLENBROOK CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Irk HENDHAM VALE CSO 0 0 100

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. This 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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