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Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

Polluted by sewage 471 times in 2025 lasting 1,597 hours

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Live data for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 21:46) there has been 404 hours of sewage overflows, from 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton in 2025

22 Sites polluted by United Utilities
471 sewage dumps
1,597 hours duration
That's 2.22 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton 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 Wince Brook OLDHAM WWTW 38 368 99.8
United Utilities River Irk ROYTON SETTLED STORM OVERFLOW 34 329 92.3
United Utilities Moston Brook ALFORD STREET PUMPING STATION 28 218 100
United Utilities Wince Brook S. CHADDERTON/ 54 209 95.7
United Utilities Springs Brook SWAN MILL/DRUMMER MILL CSO 54 86 87.6
United Utilities Wince Brook FOXDENTON LANE CSO 52 80 97
United Utilities Plumpton Clough SHEEPFOOT LANE CSO 55 69 99.3
United Utilities River Medlock Via Sws COAL PIT LANE CSO 15 42 100
United Utilities Stock Brook Via Sws ARKWRIGHT STREET CSO 41 41 99.8
United Utilities Wince Brook MOSTON RD/ CHADDERTON LOW LEVEL PS 13 35 96.8
United Utilities Bower Brook Via Sws SUFFOLK ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 26 27 100
United Utilities Wince Brook GREENGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 14 16 99.8
United Utilities Wince Brook THE CAUSEWAY CHADDERTON WWNPS 11 14 98.3
United Utilities Luzley Brrok HOLDEN FOLD LANE CSO 10 12 99.7
United Utilities Lords Brook HOLLINWOOD CEMETERY CSO 5 12 98.6
United Utilities River Medlock HATHERSHAW CSO 3 9 94.3
United Utilities Spring Brook Via Sws FERNEYFIELD ROAD CSO OLD0104 4 7 100
United Utilities Stock Brook Culvert Via Sws HUNT LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 6 99.9
United Utilities Plumpton Clough WESTHULME HOSPITAL CSO 3 5 100
United Utilities Lords Brook LIMESIDE RD/CHURCH CSO 3 3 99.8
United Utilities Plumpton Clough BOUNDARY PARK ROAD CSO 3 1 100
United Utilities Moston Brook Via Sws LIMESIDE ROAD/FOX MILL CSO 2 0 100

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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