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Bury South

Polluted by sewage 663 times in 2025 lasting 1,997 hours

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Live data for Bury South in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 804 hours of sewage overflows, from 74 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bury South in 2025

27 Sites polluted by United Utilities
663 sewage dumps
1,997 hours duration
That's 2.77 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bury South in 2025. 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 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s 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 61 495 99.7
United Utilities River Irwell LOMAX STREET CSO 90 391 99.9
United Utilities River Irwell PRESTWICH PS 66 214 99.8
United Utilities Bradley Brook Via Sws PHILIPS DRIVE (WHITEFIELD) CSO 31 157 100
United Utilities River Irwell CHURCH STREET EAST 09003 19 133 97.6
United Utilities River Irwell RAINSOUGH BROW CSO 42 100 60.1
United Utilities Parr Brook PARR BROOK CSO 42 96 100
United Utilities River Irwell RADCLIFFE CENTRAL CSO 37 85 99.6
United Utilities Parr Brook Via Sws SUNNY BANK ROAD CSO 32 75 100
United Utilities Black Lane Brook ST ANDREWS RD BROOKS AV CSO 09001 10 38 99.5
United Utilities River Irwell LITTLETON ROAD CSO 23 31 99.7
United Utilities River Irwell Via Sws RADFORD STREET CSO 30 31 99.5
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Via Culvert FARM HILL CSO 091KO 31 29 99.8
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Clvrt Irwell CARR CLOUGH CSO 091IG 35 27 99.9
United Utilities Singleton Brook BURY NEW ROAD CSO 27 23 99.8
United Utilities River Irwell RADCLIFFE CENTRAL CSO 13 17 99.9
United Utilities Singleton Brook PRESTWICH GOLF COURSE CSO 093IR 8 15 100
United Utilities Bradley Brook Suf Wtr Sew MAPLE AVENUE CSO 14 9 100
United Utilities Parr Brook LINKSVIEW ESTATE CSO 091BC 18 9 98.5
United Utilities Singleton Brook R Irwell MATHER AVE ALBERT AVE CSO 7 3 100
United Utilities River Irwell MOUNT SION ROAD CSO 3 2 84.7
United Utilities River Irwell CHURCH STREET WEST CSO 091KB 3 1 77.2
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Brook PRESTWICH CLOUGH CSO 09034 5 1 99.9
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Via Sws CLIFTON RD LEACH ST CSO 091KQ 6 1 99.9
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Via Clvrt HAMPDEN ROAD CSO 091XV 4 1 99.6
United Utilities River Irwell MORRIS STREET CSO (BRY0137) 5 0 99.8
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Via Sws THE CRESCENT CSO 091EJ 1 0 100
United Utilities River Irwell Via Culvert AGECROFT ROAD EAST CSO 0 0 98.3
United Utilities Prestwich Clough Brook BURY NEW ROAD CSO 0 0 71.4
United Utilities River Irwell DUMERS LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities Culvert Of Prestwich Clough HEYWOOD ROAD CSO 091YZ 0 0 99.6
United Utilities River Roch MANCHESTER ROAD CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Unknown PARK LANE D/S OF S.W. 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. 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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