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Manchester Rusholme - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 117 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 34 hours , potential overflows 4 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Manchester Rusholme 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 - 65 hours , 4 potential
Feb - 0 hours
Mar - 0 hours
Apr - 0 hours
May - 0 hours , 1 offline
Jun - 0 hours , 2 offline
Jul - 1 hours , 1 offline
Aug - 0 hours
Sept - 21 hours , 3 offline
Oct - 3 hours , 1 offline
Nov - 1 hours , 0 offline
Dec - 23 hours , 0 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Rolls Crescent/Yew Street CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 11 26 h 10 h
United Utilities City Road CSO Via Sws Manchester Ship Canal 12 24 h 56m -
United Utilities Stretford Road and Upper Moss Lane Junction CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 7 20 h 37m 0 h
United Utilities Rolls Crescent/Yew Street CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 3 15 h 12m 1 h
United Utilities City Road CSO Via Sws Manchester Ship Canal 1 6 h 18m -
United Utilities Bennett Street CSO Clvrt Section Of Corn Brook 3 6 h 12m -
United Utilities 161a Dickenson Road CSO Gore Brook 1 5 h 46m 1 h
United Utilities Platt Lane CSO Platt Brook Via Sws 2 4 h 22m 22 h
United Utilities Gorton Road CSO Black Brook 2 3 h 4m -
United Utilities Birch Hall Lane/Thoresway Road CSO Gore Brook Via Sws 2 2 h 38m -
United Utilities Stretford Road and Upper Moss Lane Junction CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 1 2 h 4m -
United Utilities Butler Street/Woodward Street CSO River Medlock 0 0 h -
United Utilities 3 Wood Road CSO Ouel Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Gorton Road CSO Black Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities 3 Wood Road CSO Ouel Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Regent Road / Ordsall Lane CSO (372NO) River Irwell 0 0 h -
United Utilities Vaughan Street Combined Sewer Overflow Corn Brook In Culvert 0 0 h -
United Utilities Regent Road / Ordsall Lane CSO (372NO) River Irwell 0 0 h -
United Utilities Bennett Street CSO Clvrt Section Of Corn Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Platt Lane CSO Platt Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Birch Hall Lane/Thoresway Road CSO Gore Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities 161a Dickenson Road CSO Gore Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Butler Street/Woodward Street CSO River Medlock 0 0 h -
United Utilities Vaughan Street Combined Sewer Overflow Corn Brook In Culvert 0 0 h 3 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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