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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Manchester Rusholme 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 | Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws | ROLLS CRESCENT/YEW STREET CSO | 14 | 50 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws | STRETFORD RD/UPPER MOSS LN JUNC CSO | 7 | 22 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Medlock Via Sws | OXFORD ROAD/GROSVENOR STREET CSO | 13 | 9 | 97.9 |
| United Utilities | River Medlock Via Sws | MANCUNIAN WAY CSO | 5 | 5 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Platt Brook Via Sws | PLATT LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 1 | 4 | 60.6 |
| United Utilities | Clvrt Section Of Corn Brook | VAUGHAN STREET CSO | 1 | 4 | 93.5 |
| United Utilities | Gore Brook Via Sws | BIRCH HALL LN THORESWAY RD CSO | 3 | 2 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Gore Brook | 161 A DICKENSON ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Ousel Brook | 3 WOOD ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Corn Brook In Culvert | VAUGHAN STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 98.4 |
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
Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.
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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