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Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,512 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 408 hours , potential overflows 86 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 381 hours , 5 potential
Feb - 12 hours
Mar - 4 hours , 4 offline
Apr - 9 hours , 39 offline
May - 19 hours , 12 potential
Jun - 74 hours , 17 potential
Jul - 22 hours , 4 potential
Aug - 8 hours , 5 potential
Sept - 283 hours , 14 potential
Oct - 144 hours , 25 potential
Nov - 295 hours , 1 offline
Dec - 255 hours , 1 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 29 263 h 2m -
United Utilities Royton Settled Storm Overflow River Irk 27 247 h 22m -
United Utilities Alford Street PS Moston Brook 24 170 h 3m -
United Utilities South Chadderton / The Causeway Oldham CSO Wince Brook 61 146 h 17m 143 h
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 11 107 h 45m -
United Utilities Royton Settled Storm Overflow River Irk 12 100 h 26m -
United Utilities Foxdenton Lane CSO Wince Brook 37 62 h 48m 135 h
United Utilities South Chadderton / The Causeway Oldham CSO Wince Brook 11 55 h 35m -
United Utilities SHEEPFOOT LANE CSO Plumpton Clough 40 54 h 40m 41 h
United Utilities Alford Street PS Moston Brook 7 48 h 11m -
United Utilities Swan Mill CSO Springs Brook 19 43 h 12m -
United Utilities Moston Road Combined Sewer Overflow/Chadderton Low Level Pumping Station (318N4) (OLD0157) Wince Brook 11 34 h 42m 27 h
United Utilities Arkwright Street CSO Stock Brook Via Sws 29 32 h 29m -
United Utilities Suffolk Street CSO Bower Brook Via Sws 17 22 h 58m -
United Utilities Broadway CSO Opp Football Ground (319KO) Culverted Section Of Wince Brook Via Surface Water Sewer 16 18 h 52m 0 h
United Utilities The Causeway (Chadderton) Wastewater Network Pumping Station Wince Brook 12 16 h 32m 5 h
United Utilities SHEEPFOOT LANE CSO Plumpton Clough 9 15 h 26m -
United Utilities Foxdenton Lane CSO Wince Brook 6 13 h 14m -
United Utilities Holden Fold Lane CSO Luzley Brrok 6 10 h 54m 0 h
United Utilities Hollinwood Cemetry CSO Lords Brook 4 8 h 58m 122 h
United Utilities Arkwright Street CSO Stock Brook Via Sws 5 7 h -
United Utilities Hunt Lane CSO Stock Brook Culvert Via Sws 5 6 h 49m -
United Utilities Ferneyfield Road Sewer Spring Brook Via Sws 3 6 h 44m -
United Utilities Westhulme Hospital CSO Plumpton Clough 4 5 h 18m 3 h
United Utilities Swan Mill CSO Springs Brook 2 4 h 11m -
United Utilities Limeside Road CSO Lords Brook 4 3 h 32m 4 h
United Utilities Moston Road Combined Sewer Overflow/Chadderton Low Level Pumping Station (318N4) (OLD0157) Wince Brook 1 1 h 54m -
United Utilities Broadway CSO Opp Football Ground (319KO) Culverted Section Of Wince Brook Via Surface Water Sewer 4 1 h 34m -
United Utilities BOUNDARY PARK ROAD CSO Plumpton Clough 3 1 h 20m 0 h
United Utilities Holden Fold Lane CSO Luzley Brrok 1 0 h 10m -
United Utilities Limeside Road/Fox Mill CSO Moston Brook Via Sws 1 0 h 4m 8 h
United Utilities Suffolk Street CSO Bower Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Limeside Road/Fox Mill CSO Moston Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Limeside Road CSO Lords Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities BOUNDARY PARK ROAD CSO Plumpton Clough 0 0 h 1 h
United Utilities The Causeway (Chadderton) Wastewater Network Pumping Station Wince Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 0 0 h 0 h
United Utilities Westhulme Hospital CSO Plumpton Clough 0 0 h -
United Utilities Hunt Lane CSO Stock Brook Culvert Via Sws 0 0 h 1 h
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Hollinwood Cemetry CSO Lords Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 0 0 h 0 h
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities OLDHAM WwTW Wince Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Ferneyfield Road Sewer Spring Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -

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.