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Oldham East and Saddleworth was polluted by sewage 885 times in 2023
lasting 7,279 hours

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Totals for Oldham East and Saddleworth in 2023

14 Sites polluted by United Utilities

885 sewage dumps
7,279 h duration

That's 10.11 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Oldham East and Saddleworth

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Oldham East and Saddleworth in 2023. 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 0 of the total 19 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	River Tame	SADDLEWORTH WWTW	162	2,748	99.9
United Utilities	River Tame Via Sws	GREENFIELD CHEW VALLEY ROAD CSO	90	1,372	96.1
United Utilities	Diggle Brook	STANDEDGE RD DIGGLE SSO	174	839	98
United Utilities	River Tame	DOBCROSS NEW ROAD CSO	44	699	100
United Utilities	River Beal	SHAW MAIN OUTFALL	54	568	100
United Utilities	River Tame	ST ANNES SQUARE CSO	98	529	100
United Utilities	River Tame	CLIFTON HOLMES CSO	86	257	100
United Utilities	Glodwick Brook	SNIPE CLOUGH CSO	31	112	85.7
United Utilities	Clvrt'D Section Hodge Clough	674 RIPPONDEN ROAD CSO	36	70	100
United Utilities	River Tame	GRASSCROFT SEWAGE SCHEME	9	24	55.2
United Utilities	River Irk	FIR LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	51	22	100
United Utilities	River Tame	DELPH NEW ROAD/STATION APPROACH CSO	16	16	50.7
United Utilities	Luzley Brook	COWLISHAW CSO	15	13	100
United Utilities	River Beal Via Sws	STONELEIGH PARK CSO	19	3	100
United Utilities	River Tame	HOREST LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
United Utilities	Wood Brook	WOODBROOK ROAD CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Tame	EAST GREENFIELD CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Medlock	ABBEYHILLS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
United Utilities	Culvert Glodwick Brook	ABBEYHILLS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	96.3

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. This 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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