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Congleton - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,313 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 13,843 hours , potential overflows 5,401 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Congleton for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 721 hours , 6 potential
Feb - 3 hours , 694 offline
Mar - 9 hours , 842 offline
Apr - 17 hours , 1,276 potential
May - 24 hours , 1,020 potential
Jun - 35 hours , 599 potential
Jul - 64 hours , 544 potential
Aug - 10 hours , 744 potential
Sept - 318 hours , 962 potential
Oct - 133 hours , 101 potential
Nov - 222 hours , 0 potential
Dec - 752 hours , 143 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities LAWTON GATE WwTW Kidsgrove Stream 20 277 h 24m -
United Utilities HOLMES CHAPEL WwTW River Dane 29 181 h 40m 912 h
United Utilities LAWTON GATE WwTW Kidsgrove Stream 15 173 h 18m 1 h
United Utilities KIDSGROVE WwTW Kidsgrove Stream Wheelock 15 169 h 28m 23 h
United Utilities West Heath pumping station (13542) (CON0058) Loach Brook 14 121 h 13m -
United Utilities KIDSGROVE WwTW Kidsgrove Stream Wheelock 15 115 h 38m -
United Utilities BERISFORDS COMPOUND CSO Dane In Shaw Brook 39 107 h 38m -
United Utilities West Heath pumping station (13542) (CON0058) Loach Brook 12 93 h 39m -
United Utilities CONGLETON WwTW River Dane 11 76 h 56m -
United Utilities Eaton Bank CSO River Dane 40 73 h 56m 31 h
United Utilities BERISFORDS COMPOUND CSO Dane In Shaw Brook 15 69 h 54m -
United Utilities ALSAGER WwTW River Dane 32 60 h 16m 913 h
United Utilities LAWTON GATE WwTW Kidsgrove Stream 16 58 h 29m 1 h
United Utilities The Grange (Congleton) Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 132UW) (CON0032) River Dane Via Sws 28 54 h 42m 0 h
United Utilities Cooksmere Lane PS River Croco 11 50 h 39m -
United Utilities Chestnut Avenue PS Trent 16 49 h 56m 1 h
United Utilities MILL LANE CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 10 42 h 6m -
United Utilities MILL LANE CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 19 42 h 6m 39 h
United Utilities ALSAGER WwTW River Dane 11 32 h 48m 188 h
United Utilities Eaton Bank CSO River Dane 13 32 h -
United Utilities FRONT STREET CSO Arclid Brook 26 31 h 54m -
United Utilities LAWTON GATE WwTW Kidsgrove Stream 8 30 h 42m -
United Utilities CONGLETON WwTW River Dane 9 29 h 20 h
United Utilities Sefton Avenue combined sewer overflow River Dane Via S/Water Sewer 5 21 h 38m 1,478 h
United Utilities Thurlwood No 1 PS Trent And Mersey Canal 5 20 h 46m 0 h
United Utilities FRONT STREET CSO Arclid Brook 11 20 h 44m -
United Utilities 58/64 Audley Road CSO Valley Brook 22 19 h 26m -
United Utilities CONGLETON WwTW River Dane 13 19 h 14m 2,194 h
United Utilities Thurlwood No 1 PS Trent And Mersey Canal 10 17 h 2m -
United Utilities SANDBACH WwTW River Wheelock 9 14 h 57m 372 h
United Utilities MILL HILL LANE CSO River Wheelock 15 14 h 56m 0 h
United Utilities Brook Mill CSO Clvrtd Section Of Brook Mill 11 14 h 20m 863 h
United Utilities BROOKHOUSE GREEN WwTW X-X MOSS MERE River Wheelock 5 13 h 50m -
United Utilities Middlewich Road CSO Unnamed River Wheelock 14 13 h 40m -
United Utilities BROMLEY ROAD / CORONATION ROAD CSO River Dane Via Sws 22 13 h 16m 16 h
United Utilities Mill Lane CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 14 10 h 46m 37 h
United Utilities Alum Bridge PS River Croco 2 10 h 37m 843 h
United Utilities HASSALL ROAD CSO Day Green Stream 9 9 h 36m 2,349 h
United Utilities HASSALL ROAD CSO River Wheelock 13 9 h 28m -
United Utilities SANDBACH WwTW River Wheelock 5 9 h 3m 137 h
United Utilities CONGLETON WwTW River Dane 3 8 h 25m -
United Utilities MILL HILL LANE CSO River Wheelock 7 8 h 24m 0 h
United Utilities Chestnut Avenue PS Trent 4 7 h 18m 118 h
United Utilities Cooksmere Lane PS River Croco 1 6 h 48m -
United Utilities Havannah Street/Redfern Avenue Combined Sewer Overflow River Dane 9 6 h 48m -
United Utilities Middlewich Road CSO Unnamed River Wheelock 10 6 h 36m 0 h
United Utilities MOSS LANE CSO Trent And Mersey Canal 11 6 h 28m 86 h
United Utilities Ashmores Lane/Lawton Road CSO Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws 12 5 h 16m 1 h
United Utilities HASSALL ROAD CSO Day Green Stream 3 2 h 56m -
United Utilities 29 Cresswellshawe Road (Overflow A) CSO Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 9 2 h 48m 0 h
United Utilities Ashmores Lane/Lawton Road CSO Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws 4 2 h 48m -
United Utilities HASSALL ROAD CSO River Wheelock 3 2 h 10m -
United Utilities 29 Cresswellshawe Road (Overflow B) CSO Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 6 2 h 6m -
United Utilities BROOKHOUSE GREEN WwTW X-X MOSS MERE River Wheelock 1 1 h 56m -
United Utilities Castle Inn Road (Mossley) Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 13531) (CON0034) Dane-In-Shaw Brook 2 1 h 52m 0 h
United Utilities The Grange (Congleton) Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 132UW) (CON0032) River Dane Via Sws 4 1 h 52m -
United Utilities MOSS LANE CSO Trent And Mersey Canal 1 1 h 48m -
United Utilities Havannah Street/Redfern Avenue Combined Sewer Overflow River Dane 3 1 h 38m -
United Utilities 58/64 Audley Road CSO Valley Brook 1 1 h 20m -
United Utilities Brook Mill CSO Clvrtd Section Of Brook Mill 3 1 h 12m -
United Utilities BROMLEY ROAD / CORONATION ROAD CSO River Dane Via Sws 5 0 h 52m -
United Utilities Audley Road and Talke Road Junction CSO Valley Brook Via Sws 2 0 h 50m 5,006 h
United Utilities HASSALL ROAD / CREWE ROAD CSO Valley Brook 3 0 h 42m 0 h
United Utilities XXX Middleton Road CSO (131V4) Croco 1 0 h 36m -
United Utilities Bromley Road CSO River Dane Via Sws 2 0 h 30m 1 h
United Utilities Mill Lane CSO Dane-In-Shaw Brook 2 0 h 22m 0 h
United Utilities Birch Avenue CSO (134JU) Valley Brook Via Surface Water Sewer 1 0 h 6m 1 h
United Utilities 29 Cresswellshawe Road (Overflow A) CSO Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 1 0 h 4m -
United Utilities Bromley Road CSO River Dane Via Sws 1 0 h 2m -
United Utilities Lawton Road/Wesley Avenue CSO Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities DANE STREET CSO River Dane 0 0 h 21 h
United Utilities HASSALL ROAD / CREWE ROAD CSO Valley Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Alum Bridge PS River Croco 0 0 h -
United Utilities DANE STREET CSO River Dane 0 0 h -
United Utilities HOLMES CHAPEL WwTW River Dane 0 0 h 1,503 h
United Utilities Birch Avenue CSO (134JU) Valley Brook Via Surface Water Sewer 0 0 h -
United Utilities Sefton Avenue combined sewer overflow River Dane Via S/Water Sewer 0 0 h 2,072 h
United Utilities Castle Inn Road (Mossley) Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 13531) (CON0034) Dane-In-Shaw Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities CREWE ROAD / MILL LANE CSO River Wheelock 0 0 h 0 h
United Utilities XXX Middleton Road CSO (131V4) Croco 0 0 h -
United Utilities 29 Cresswellshawe Road (Overflow B) CSO Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Audley Road and Talke Road Junction CSO Valley Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities CREWE ROAD / MILL LANE CSO River Wheelock 0 0 h -

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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