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Heywood and Middleton North

Polluted by sewage 703 times in 2025 lasting 3,221 hours

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Live data for Heywood and Middleton North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 922 hours of sewage overflows, from 57 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Heywood and Middleton North in 2025

24 Sites polluted by United Utilities
703 sewage dumps
3,221 hours duration
That's 4.47 months. On average 1.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Heywood and Middleton North 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 Roch ROCHDALE WWTW 104 1,503 100
United Utilities Trub Brook River Irwell CASTLETON WWTW CSTLT 45 317 100
United Utilities River Roch HEYWOOD (BOTANY STW) CSO 35 240 99.9
United Utilities River Roch SUDDEN VALLEY SEWER 83 235 100
United Utilities River Roch HOOLEY BRIDGE CSO 39 140 99.6
United Utilities River Spodden SPOTLAND BRIDGE CSO 35035 51 127 99.7
United Utilities River Irk WOOD STREET CSO 58 126 93.1
United Utilities Trub Brook CASTLETON SOUTH JUNCTION CSO 40 122 96
United Utilities River Roch PEEL LANE CSO NO. 1 43 92 99.9
United Utilities Unknown NORDEN/BAMFORD OUTFALL SEWER 22 73 99.6
United Utilities River Roch PEEL LANE NO 2 CSO 35 69 99.7
United Utilities Trub Brook River Irk WAVERLEY RD CSO 352W4 32 33 100
United Utilities Whittle Brook MIDDLETON RD PS 5 32 100
United Utilities Whit Brook BOARSHAW ROAD CSO 32 25 99.3
United Utilities Clv Whit Brook FIELDING STREET CSO (ROC0193) 5 21 96.2
United Utilities Millers Brook Via Sws JOHN STREET CSO 35020 20 18 99.7
United Utilities River Roch WATERFOLD LANE CSO 30 14 96.3
United Utilities River Irk SPRING VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 13 97.5
United Utilities Healey Dell ROOLEY MOOR RD W51 7 8 91.2
United Utilities Naden Brook EDENFIELD ROAD CSO 1 3 100
United Utilities Clvrt'D Section River Irk LONG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 1 100
United Utilities Whit Brook, River Irk BOARDSHAW ROAD CSO 2 0 100
United Utilities Naden Brook R Roch 745 EDENFIELD ROAD CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Whittle Brook Via Sws MIDDLETON ROAD CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Whit Brook JOHN LEE FOLD CSO 0 0 97.8
United Utilities Unknown MARLAND HILL SSO 0 0 99
United Utilities River Spodden MELLOR STREET CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Trub Brook Via Sws TINTERN ROAD (OFF THE LAND) CSO 0 0 99.8

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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