Congleton was polluted by sewage 1,245 times in 2024
lasting 6,637 hours

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Live data for Congleton in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 1,340 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Congleton in 2024
33 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,245 sewage dumps
6,637 h duration
That's 9.22 months. On average 3.4 times a day
Change Over Time
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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 Congleton, 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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Congleton 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 0 of the total 38 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 Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws LAWTON ROAD WESLEY AVE CSO 132CM 106 1,091 97.2
United Utilities Kidsgrove Stream LAWTON GATE WWTW 72 788 98.4
United Utilities Kidsgrove Stream Wheelock KIDSGROVE WWTW 52 741 100
United Utilities River Dane HOLMES CHAPEL STW 62 651 97.9
United Utilities Trent And Mersey Canal MOSS LANE SANDBACH 138CF 40 545 98
United Utilities Loach Brook WEST HEATH PUMPING STATION 52 502 100
United Utilities River Dane CONGLETON STW 67 430 100
United Utilities River Wheelock SANDBACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 58 375 83.6
United Utilities Trent And Mersey Canal THURLWOOD NO.1 PS 38 237 100
United Utilities River Dane ALSAGER STW 46 180 100
United Utilities Dane In Shaw Brook BERISFORDS COMPOUND CSO 131G3 68 161 98.6
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws BROMLEY RD CORONATION RD CSO 131GZ 70 160 98.6
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws THE GRANGE CONGLETON CSO 72 145 99.2
United Utilities River Dane EATON BANK CSO 131S4 69 135 98.7
United Utilities Dane-In-Shaw Brook MILL LANE CSO (134I5) 39 104 99
United Utilities River Croco COOKESMERE LANE 16 70 100
United Utilities Arclid Brook FRONT STREET CSO 13521 42 49 98.9
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD A CSO 13567 39 43 98.2
United Utilities Valley Brook 58/64 AUDLEY ROAD CSO 33 37 95.6
United Utilities Trent CHESTNUT AVENUE PS 28 35 97.9
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws ASHEMORES LANE LAWTON RD CSO 131CE 32 24 99.2
United Utilities Unnamed River Wheelock MIDDLEWICH ROAD CSO 131AD 14 20 99.2
United Utilities River Wheelock MILL HILL LANE CSO 132F8 21 17 99.3
United Utilities River Wheelock HASSALL ROAD CSO 131X8 16 17 95.4
United Utilities River Wheelock BROOKHOUSE GREEN WASTEWATER WORKS 3 16 98.7
United Utilities River Croco ALUM BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 4 11 100
United Utilities Clvrtd Section Of Brook Mill BROOK MILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 17 10 92.9
United Utilities River Dane HAVANNAH STREET/ REDFERN AVE CSO 16 9 100
United Utilities Day Green Stream 113 HASSALL RD CSO 12 9 99.1
United Utilities Valley Brook Via Sws AUDLEY RD/TALKE RD JUNCTION CSO 9 5 99
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws BROMLEY ROAD CSO 19 4 99.2
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD B CSO 13567 10 2 99.3
United Utilities Valley Brook HASSALL RD CREWE RD CSO 131QJ 3 1 98.5
United Utilities River Dane DANE STREET CSO 131Q1 0 0 99.2
United Utilities River Dane Via S/Water Sewer SEFTON AVENUE CSO (CON0090) 0 0 99.7
United Utilities River Wheelock CREWE ROAD MILL LANE CSO 138CG 0 0 99
United Utilities River Dane SPRAGG ST WILLOW ST CSO CON0089 0 0 71.2
United Utilities Dane-In-Shaw Brook CASTLE INN ROAD MOSSLEY CSO 0 0 99.5

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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