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Chester South and Eddisbury

Polluted by sewage 911 times in 2025 lasting 4,072 hours

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Live data for Chester South and Eddisbury in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,040 hours of sewage overflows, from 85 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Chester South and Eddisbury in 2025

45 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water United Utilities
911 sewage dumps
4,072 hours duration
That's 5.66 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chester South and Eddisbury 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 Weaver CREWE WWTW 63 664 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Golbourne Brook CSO AT TATTENHALL STW 66 336 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Aldford Brook ALDFORD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 54 330 99.8
United Utilities Crowton Brook KINGSLEY STW 30 280 100
United Utilities Wettenhall Brook TARPORLEY WWTW 63 246 99.95
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Powsey Brook SAIGHTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 53 182 99.9
United Utilities Fir Brook OAKMERE PUMPING STATION 23 181 100
United Utilities Edelston Brook BADDILEY LANE SPS 31 178 98
United Utilities Wettenhall Brook RUSHTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 8 160 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse MALPAS SUNNYSIDE PS 16 155 99.9
United Utilities Milton Brook TARVIN STW 34 141 99.8
United Utilities River Weaver BULKELEY STW 18 139 90
United Utilities Crowton Brook OFF RODDY LANE CSO (472O5) 45 119 97.8
United Utilities River Gowy BUNBURY STW 46 95 99.9
United Utilities Cuddington CUDDINGTON PUMPING STATION 15 94 99.9
United Utilities Sandyford Brook COTEBROOK STW 18 82 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee THE DINGLE CHESTER CSO 66 82 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CHESTER WEIR (SOUTH BANK) CSO 20 73 95.9
United Utilities Swanback Mill Brook VICARAGE ROAD CSO 23 61 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Caldy Brook THE RAKE AND PIKLE PUMPING STATION 4 60 99.9
United Utilities Caldy Brook River Dee APPLEGARTH 5 54 93.2
United Utilities Sales Brook WHITCHURCH ROAD SPS 14 44 99.6
United Utilities River Weaver WEAVERHAM STW 32 43 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee GROSVENOR BRIDGE CSO 13 38 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dee ECCLESTON PUMPING STATION 4 37 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bache Brook CHESTER TROOPER INN CSO 14 36 98.9
United Utilities River Weaver WRENBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 12 28 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Carden Brook CSO TILSTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 14 21 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Caldy Brook CHRISTLETON WHITCHURCH ROAD PS 10 18 99.9
United Utilities Cuddington Brook CUDDINGTON LANE CSO (471QL) 14 16 99.9
United Utilities Shropshire Union Canal WRENBURY HALL ROAD SPS 9 16 73.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wych Brook MALPAS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 16 12 99.8
United Utilities River Weaver OWLEY WOOD ROAD CSO 15 11 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee SALTNEY SEWERAGE CHESTER STREET PS 6 6 99.8
United Utilities River Weaver KEEPER'S LANE CSO (472BH) 10 6 96.5
United Utilities Cuddington Brook CUDDINGTON LANE CSO (471QL) 4 5 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee EDGAR PARK CSO 10 4 99.1
United Utilities Cuddington Brook WASTE LANE CSO SITE ID 472W0 4 1 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnambed River WELL STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 99.7
United Utilities River Weaver BROOMHALL SPS 1 0 81.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ditch PLOUGH LANE EAST PUMPING STATION 2 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Of Balderton Brook MARLSTON CUM LACHE PS SSO 1 0 89.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee REAR OF 22 CURZON PARK NORTH CSO 1 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee SANDY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee THE DINGLE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CHESTER BELGRAVE PARK SPS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Caldy Brook CHRISTLETON OLD WOMAN'S LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee HANDBRIDGE GREENBANK SPS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Balderton Brook MARLSTON-CUM-LACHE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Millbrook MILLBROOK PARK PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9

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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