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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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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.

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