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Manchester Withington - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 378 hours in 2026 , potential overflows 2,479 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Manchester Withington 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 - 19 hours
Feb - 125 hours , 0 offline
Mar - 151 hours , 298 potential
Apr - 0 hours , 720 potential
May - 9 hours , 744 potential
Jun - 0 hours , 716 potential
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 49 hours
Sept - 22 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Barlow Moor Road / Rowsley Avenue CSO River Mersey 34 177h 4m -
United Utilities Withington PS River Mersey 25 175h 5m 2,479 h
United Utilities Mauldeth Road CSO Chorlton Brook 14 14h 56m -
United Utilities Edge Lane/Wilbraham Road CSO Chorlton Brook Via Sws 8 5h 54m -
United Utilities Mauldeth Road West CSO Chorlton Brook Via Culvert 6 5h 53m -
United Utilities Burton Road (Withington) CSO River Mersey 1 0h -
United Utilities Burton Road (Withington) CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Lombard Grove/Lorne Road CSO Cringle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Withington PS River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities St Werbughes Road / Sandy Lane CSO Chorlton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Barlow Moor Road/Palatine Road CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Wilmslow Road/Brook road CSO Leigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mauldeth Road West CSO Chorlton Brook Via Culvert 0 0h -
United Utilities Lombard Grove/Lorne Road CSO Cringle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Mauldeth Road CSO Chorlton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Edge Lane/Manchester Road/High Lane Chorleton Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Barlow Moor Road/Palatine Road CSO River Mersey 0 0h 0 h
United Utilities Edge Lane/Manchester Road/High Lane Chorleton Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Wilmslow Road/Brook road CSO Leigh Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Beech Road/Claude Road CSO Chorlton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities St Werbughes Road / Sandy Lane CSO Chorlton Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Barlow Moor Road / Rowsley Avenue CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Edge Lane/Wilbraham Road CSO Chorlton Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Beech Road/Claude Road CSO Chorlton Brook 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

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.

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.