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Mid Cheshire

Polluted by sewage 869 times in 2025 lasting 2,581 hours

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Live data for Mid Cheshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 569 hours of sewage overflows, from 92 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Mid Cheshire in 2025

35 Sites polluted by United Utilities
869 sewage dumps
2,581 hours duration
That's 3.58 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Mid Cheshire 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 River Weaver MEADOWBANK/BRADFORD RD PS 69 656 99.9
United Utilities River Weaver NORTHWICH WWTW 39 291 100
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws MARLOWE ROAD (PLAYING FIELDS) CSO 69 233 98.9
United Utilities River Weaver WINSFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 44 196 99.9
United Utilities Wade Brook 102 MIDDLEWICH ROAD CSO 62 126 96.4
United Utilities River Weaver GREENBANK LANE CSO NORTHWICH 40 117 100
United Utilities River Croco GASWORKS YARD PUMPING STATION 49 103 100
United Utilities River Weaver WEIR STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 24 98 95.9
United Utilities Peckmill Bk MERE HEATH PUMPING STATION 18 91 100
United Utilities Eldersbriar Brook OUTSIDE 51 CHURCH STREET CSO 471JC 52 82 97.9
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws MIDDLEWICH RD/PARKFIELD RD CSO 56 80 88.5
United Utilities River Croco WARDLE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 28 67 100
United Utilities River Weaver WINSFORD HILL STREET 16 63 99.9
United Utilities Weaver Navigation NAVIGATION ROAD CSO (472HN) 58 62 99.9
United Utilities Rilshaw Brook RILSHAW LANE 21 54 99.4
United Utilities Peckmill Brook Via Sws REAR MEADOW LANE CSO 33 50 67.3
United Utilities River Dane OFF CARLTON ROAD CSO 38 28 96.6
United Utilities Handforth Brook Via Sws 310-314 CHESTER ROAD CSO 9 27 97.3
United Utilities River Weaver WINNINGTON STREET CSO 472YM 12 27 99.5
United Utilities River Dane MANORA ROAD (DANE NURSERIES) CSO 22 27 99.8
United Utilities River Wheelock Via Sws ST MICHAELS WAY CSO 39 25 99.4
United Utilities Unknown BARONS QUAY PS 3 18 100
United Utilities Weaver Navigation OFF SCHOOL LANE CSO (472JI) 3 16 94.3
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws 230 LONDON ROAD CSO 21 13 99.8
United Utilities River Weaver Via Sws O/S 90 QUEENSWAY CSO 9 5 88
United Utilities Wade Brook O/S 173 MIDDLEWICH RD 5 3 99.7
United Utilities Wade Brook O/S 49 EDWARD ST 3 2 97.1
United Utilities Weaver Navigation Via Sws SPENCER STREET/DARWIN STREET CSO 8 2 100
United Utilities River Weaver DOCK ROAD SPS 3 2 100
United Utilities Peckmill Brook OFF JACK LANE 6 1 100
United Utilities River Weaver SCHOOL LANE/LODGE LANE CSO 2 1 99.3
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws 181 LONDON ROAD CSO 5 1 96.6
United Utilities Wade Brook Via Sws REAR OF 36 PETER STREET 1 0 99.9
United Utilities Unknown CASTLE ST 1 0 99.9
United Utilities River Wheelock NANTWICH ROAD CHESTER RD CSO 131J6 1 0 99.3
United Utilities Unknown CHESTER WAY 0 0 100
United Utilities River Weaver CHURCH ST 0 0 100
United Utilities Eldersbriar Brook CHURCH STREET CSO 0 0 99.5
United Utilities Culvert Dene Brook Viasws DEAN STREET CSO (471RJ) 0 0 97.2
United Utilities Bogart Brook MARTON NORTH WWTW 0 0 85.9
United Utilities River Weaver Via Culvert OFF JOHN ST CSO (472JC) 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Pettypool Brook WHITEGATE WWTW 0 0 99.9

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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