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Macclesfield - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 278 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 3,299 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Macclesfield so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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 - 59 hours , 744 offline
Feb - 128 hours , 672 offline
Mar - 64 hours , 744 offline
Apr - 9 hours , 720 offline
May - 16 hours , 419 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Disley PS River Goyt 38 136h 53m -
United Utilities MACCLESFIELD WwTW River Bollin 19 72h 46m 0 h
United Utilities 18/20 Beech Farm Drive CSO River Bollin 23 30h 44m -
United Utilities Westminster Road CSO River Bollin 23 23h 58m -
United Utilities Hibel Road CSO River Bollin 2 4h 9m -
United Utilities Palmerston Street/Shrigley Road CSO Harrop Brook 3 3h 6m -
United Utilities Barnaby Road CSO Poynton Brook Via Sws 1 2h 52m -
United Utilities Water Street CSO River Roch 3 2h 28m -
United Utilities Roewoods Outfall Sewer (27206) (MAC0028) River Bollin 3 1h 8m -
United Utilities Adlington Road (Bollington Park) CSO River Dean 1 0h 12m -
United Utilities 20 Adlington Road CSO River Dean 1 0h 12m 2 h
United Utilities BEECH BRIDGE SOUTH CSO River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities 20 Adlington Road CSO River Dean 0 0h -
United Utilities Waters Green (Dams Valley) CSO River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Cartmel Close (Macclesfield) Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 273BV) (MAC0061) River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Roewoods Outfall Sewer (27206) (MAC0028) River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Disley PS River Goyt 0 0h -
United Utilities River Bank Close CSO River Dean 0 0h -
United Utilities Westminster Road CSO River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Waters Green (Dams Valley) CSO River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Barnaby Road CSO Poynton Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Allen Street/Lord Street CSO River Dean 0 0h -
United Utilities Palmerston Street/Shrigley Road CSO Harrop Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Banbury Close CSO Shoresclough Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities 18/20 Beech Farm Drive CSO River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Water Street CSO River Roch 0 0h -
United Utilities Cartmel Close (Macclesfield) Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 273BV) (MAC0061) River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities MACCLESFIELD WwTW River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities Allen Street/Lord Street CSO River Dean 0 0h -
United Utilities River Bank Close CSO River Dean 0 0h 3,297 h
United Utilities Banbury Close CSO Shoresclough Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Adlington Road (Bollington Park) CSO River Dean 0 0h -
United Utilities Hibel Road CSO River Bollin 0 0h -
United Utilities BEECH BRIDGE SOUTH CSO River Bollin 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.