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Polluted by sewage 1,061 times in 2024 lasting 3,547 hours
So far this year (as of May 7, 2025, 8:15 PM) there has been 2,245 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Bury South, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bury 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 Irwell | SION STREET CSO 09026 | 74 | 844 | 94.1 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | LOMAX STREET CSO | 121 | 500 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | PRESTWICH PS | 78 | 377 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | BOLTON RD CANUTE STREET CSO | 99 | 288 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | STAND LANE CSO 09058 | 82 | 258 | 97.8 |
| United Utilities | Parr Brook Via Sws | SUNNY BANK ROAD CSO | 72 | 208 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | RAINSOUGH BROW CSO | 88 | 207 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Bradley Brook Via Sws | PHILIPS DRIVE (WHITEFIELD) CSO | 41 | 203 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | CHURCH STREET EAST 09003 | 14 | 125 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Parr Brook | PARR BROOK CSO | 55 | 112 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Parr Brook | LINKSVIEW ESTATE CSO 091BC | 20 | 69 | 98.4 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | RADCLIFFE CENTRAL CSO | 29 | 62 | 99 |
| United Utilities | Singleton Brook | BURY NEW ROAD CSO | 34 | 40 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Via Culvert | FARM HILL CSO 091KO | 42 | 40 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Clvrt Irwell | CARR CLOUGH CSO 091IG | 47 | 39 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell Via Sws | RADFORD STREET CSO | 36 | 35 | 97.3 |
| United Utilities | Black Lane Brook | ST ANDREWS RD BROOKS AV CSO 09001 | 12 | 32 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | LITTLETON ROAD CSO | 18 | 21 | 55.8 |
| United Utilities | Singleton Brook | PRESTWICH GOLF COURSE CSO 093IR | 12 | 18 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | RADCLIFFE CENTRAL CSO | 16 | 17 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Bradley Brook Suf Wtr Sew | MAPLE AVENUE CSO | 16 | 15 | 96.6 |
| United Utilities | Singleton Brook R Irwell | MATHER AVE ALBERT AVE CSO | 14 | 8 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | DUMERS LANE PUMPING STATION | 1 | 4 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Via Clvrt | HAMPDEN ROAD CSO 091XV | 8 | 3 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Brook | PRESTWICH CLOUGH CSO 09034 | 9 | 2 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | CHURCH STREET WEST CSO 091KB | 4 | 2 | 98.8 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Via Sws | CLIFTON RD LEACH ST CSO 091KQ | 10 | 1 | 98.9 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Brook | BURY NEW ROAD CSO | 2 | 1 | 98.1 |
| United Utilities | River Roch | MANCHESTER ROAD CSO | 3 | 0 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Culvert Of Prestwich Clough | HEYWOOD ROAD CSO 091YZ | 2 | 0 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Prestwich Clough Via Sws | THE CRESCENT CSO 091EJ | 2 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | MORRIS STREET CSO (BRY0137) | 0 | 0 | 93.3 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell | MOUNT SION ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 95.1 |
| United Utilities | River Irwell Via Culvert | AGECROFT ROAD EAST CSO | 0 | 0 | 80.2 |
| United Utilities | Unknown | PARK LANE D/S OF S.W. | 0 | 0 | 100 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
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