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Oldham East and Saddleworth - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 743 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 3 hours , potential overflows 70 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Oldham East and Saddleworth 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 - 107 hours , 13 potential
Feb - 542 hours , 56 potential
Mar - 90 hours , 1 offline
Apr - 1 hours
May - 1 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities SADDLEWORTH WwTW River Tame 22 278h 44m -
United Utilities Holland Close CSO (319LC) River Tame 19 250h 24m -
United Utilities Clifton Holmes CSO River Tame 26 124h 24m 70 h
United Utilities Greenfield Chew Valley Combined Sewer Overflow River Tame Via Sws 13 87h 18m -
United Utilities St Anne's Square Main Drain 5 1h 28m 1 h
United Utilities Ripponden Road CSO Clvrt'D Section Hodge Clough 1 0h 39m -
United Utilities Snipe Clough CSO Glodwick Brook 1 0h 38m -
United Utilities STONELEIGH PARK CSO River Beal Via Sws 1 0h 8m -
United Utilities Delph New Road/Station SSO River Tame 1 0h 2m 2 h
United Utilities New Delph Bridge CSO (319LB) River Tame 1 0h 2m -
United Utilities Dobcross New Road CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Woodbrook Road CSO Wood Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Delph New Road/Station SSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Abbeyhills Road CSO River Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities SADDLEWORTH WwTW River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Abbeyhills Combined Sewer Overflow (31028) (OLD0124) Culvert Glodwick Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Standedge Road SSO Diggle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities East Greenfield CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Holland Close CSO (319LC) River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Woodbrook Road CSO Wood Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Shaw Road CSO River Beal 0 0h -
United Utilities Standedge Road SSO Diggle Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Abbeyhills Road CSO River Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities Ripponden Road CSO Clvrt'D Section Hodge Clough 0 0h -
United Utilities Cowlishaw CSO Luzley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Clifton Holmes CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities East Greenfield CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Horest Lane CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Dobcross New Road CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Manchester Road (Greenfield) CSO Dacre Beck 0 0h -
United Utilities Horest Lane CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Armit Road (Grasscroft) CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Abbeyhills Combined Sewer Overflow (31028) (OLD0124) Culvert Glodwick Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Cowlishaw CSO Luzley Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Armit Road (Grasscroft) CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities St Anne's Square Main Drain 0 0h -
United Utilities STONELEIGH PARK CSO River Beal Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Manchester Road (Greenfield) CSO Dacre Beck 0 0h -
United Utilities FIR LANE CSO River Irk 0 0h -
United Utilities FIR LANE CSO River Irk 0 0h -
United Utilities Greenfield Chew Valley Combined Sewer Overflow River Tame Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities New Delph Bridge CSO (319LB) River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Shaw Road CSO River Beal 0 0h -
United Utilities Snipe Clough CSO Glodwick 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

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.