Top of the Poops | Constituency | Manchester Central| Polluted by United Utilities

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Live data for Manchester Central in 2025

So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:15 AM) there has been 362 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Manchester Central in 2024

40 Sites polluted by United Utilities

649 sewage dumps

1,465 hours duration

That's 2.03 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Manchester Central

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Manchester Central, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Manchester Central 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 1 of the total 53 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	River Irk	ROCHDALE RD/COLLYHURST	112	541	99.5
United Utilities	Corn Brook Via Sws	PARROTT STREET/BROMLOW STREET CSO	34	226	98.8
United Utilities	River Medlock	FAILSWORTH WWTW	37	152	99.3
United Utilities	River Medlock	CHESTER ROAD/GREAT JACKSON ROAD CSO	25	102	87.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	BEAUMONT BUILDING CSO 28049	33	70	98.7
United Utilities	River Irwell	JULIA SREETT CSO	44	50	99.1
United Utilities	River Medlock	FAIRFIELD STREET CSO	27	44	98.4
United Utilities	River Irwell	SHERBORNE STREET CSO	26	42	99.4
United Utilities	River Irwell	WATER STREET/LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO	14	37	99.6
United Utilities	River Irwell	VICTORIA BRIDGE STREET CSO (282WL)	38	28	98.8
United Utilities	River Medlock	EGERTON ST WORSLEY ST CSO	45	28	97.9
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Sws	BURY NEW ROAD SALFORD CSO	21	22	100
United Utilities	River Irk	ASPIN LANE CSO 281CJ	33	19	99.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	WATER ST/NEW QUAY ST CSO	8	17	99.5
United Utilities	River Irk	MILLER STREET/CORPORATION ST CSO	28	15	99.7
United Utilities	River Medlock Via Sws	PRINCESS ST/WHITWORTH ST CSO 282MN	12	15	96.2
United Utilities	Moss Brook	ASHTON OLD RD MANSHAW ST CSO 281CD	14	8	98.9
United Utilities	Clvrt River Mersey	ASSHETON ROAD CSO 281CA	10	5	98.6
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Srf Wtr Sewer	BURY NEW RD LOCKETT ST CSO	5	4	97.4
United Utilities	River Irwell	BRIDGE STREET CSO	4	4	91
United Utilities	Black Brook	GORTON ROAD (LIGHTING TOWER)	10	4	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	BLACKFRIARS STREET CSO 283J1	14	3	92.4
United Utilities	River Irk	DANTZIC STREET CSO	5	3	98.9
United Utilities	River Irwell	WATER STREET CSO (284TV)	3	2	99
United Utilities	River Irwell	BRIDGE ST WEST CSO (281F9)	5	2	99.5
United Utilities	River Medlock	CHARLES ST PRINCESS ST CSO 28116	8	1	98.9
United Utilities	River Medlock	ROLLESTON AVENUE/BUTLER STREET CSO	5	1	98.8
United Utilities	River Medlock	PALMERSTON STREET CSO	2	1	95.55
United Utilities	Shooters Brook	LORD NORTH STREET/CLIFTON ST CSO	8	1	99.2
United Utilities	River Medlock	CHESTER STREET CSO	3	1	100
United Utilities	River Irk	BROMLEY STREET CSO 281MT	5	0	99.1
United Utilities	River Irk	DANTZIC ST WARFORD ST CSO 288A7	1	0	95.2
United Utilities	River Irk	VERDON STREET/SCOTLAND CSO	2	0	96.3
United Utilities	River Medlock	MALLARD STREET/CHARLES STREET CSO	1	0	98.9
United Utilities	River Medlock	CHARLES STREET CSO	1	0	76
United Utilities	Culverted Section Moss Brook	HARTSHEAD CLOSE/MANSHAW ROAD CSO	1	0	98.9
United Utilities	River Medlock	MOUNT STREET/GREEK STREET CSO	1	0	99.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	BURY NEW ROAD/WATERLOO ROAD CSO	1	0	99.3
United Utilities	Corn Brook Via Sws	JUNCTION OF ASHTON NEW ROAD CSO	2	0	99.3
United Utilities	Shooters Brook Rvr Medloc	CHORLTON STREET CSO 281J2	1	0	99
United Utilities	River Medlock	BANK STREET CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Lords Brook	HOLT LANE FAILSWORTH SSO	0	0	93.7
United Utilities	River Irk	LONG MILLGATE CSO	0	0	99.3
United Utilities	River Medlock	HILLKIRK STREET CSO (282I9)	0	0	91
United Utilities	River Medlock	BRISCOE LANE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Irk	HUNTS BANK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	99.1
United Utilities	River Medlock Via Sws	MILL STREET BRADFORD MANCHESTER CSO	0	0	99.5
United Utilities	River Medlock	GREAT BRIDGEWATER ST CSO (281WI)	0	0	64
United Utilities	River Medlock	BUTLER STREET/WOODWARD STREET CSO	0	0	99.3
United Utilities	River Medlock	CULCETH LANE CSO	0	0	99.3
United Utilities	River Medlock	CAMBRIDGE STREET CSO 282D9	0	0	99
United Utilities	Berry Brow Culvert	JUNCTION OF GRAVER LN ELSMA RD CSO	0	0	77.1
United Utilities	River Medlock	BESWICK ST ASHTON NEW RD CSO 281D0	0	0	99.4

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Manchester Central Polluted by sewage 649 times in 2024 lasting 1,465 hours Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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