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Live data for Rochdale in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 21:46) there has been 484 hours of sewage overflows, from 66 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Rochdale in 2025

29 Sites polluted by United Utilities

729 sewage dumps

2,183 hours duration

That's 3.03 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rochdale 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	River Roch	OAKENROD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	87	508	100
United Utilities	River Beal	ASHES LANE CSO	43	331	99.8
United Utilities	Clvrt Sec Of Sudden Brook	OLDHAM ROAD CSO 35027	84	240	99.7
United Utilities	River Spodden, River Roch	FOOTWOOD / SPODDEN VALLEY CSO	35	218	99.8
United Utilities	River Roch	SMITH BRIDGE ROAD CSO 35051	20	158	100
United Utilities	River Roch	ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO	73	138	99.9
United Utilities	Sanney Brook	BELFIELD ROAD/BESWICKE ROYDS ST CSO	40	93	99.7
United Utilities	Suddon Brook	HARTLEY LANE CSO	45	77	99.2
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	MILNROW ROAD/FISHWICK STREET CSO	55	75	99.8
United Utilities	River Roch	MILLGATE CSO 35025	26	52	97.6
United Utilities	Culverted River Roch	OAKCLIFFE ROAD CSO	26	51	99.8
United Utilities	Hey Brook River Roch	YORKSHIRE ST OSWALD ST CSO 35024	31	51	98.8
United Utilities	River Roch	SMITH ST AND JOHN ST CSO 35021	34	47	98.9
United Utilities	Ash Brook	WATERHOUSE CLOSE (WARDLE) CSO	20	22	91.5
United Utilities	Stanney Brook	NEWBOLD STREET CSO	26	21	99.8
United Utilities	Lord Burn, River Roch	ST MARYS GATE/CHEETHAM STREET CSO	21	15	92.7
United Utilities	River Roch	ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO	2	14	90.8
United Utilities	Stanney Brook	STANNEY ROAD CSO	4	12	99.6
United Utilities	River Roch	YORKSHIRE STREET CSO 35022	5	11	93.4
United Utilities	River Roch	WATER STREET CSO	1	11	99.6
United Utilities	Culverted River Roch Via Sws	DRAKE STREET CSO (35038)	8	10	99.7
United Utilities	River Roch	TOAD LANE - HIGH STREET CSO	9	5	99.8
United Utilities	River Beal	SHAW ROAD CSO	2	3	89
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	MANCHESTER RD CSO (351TT)	11	2	100
United Utilities	Ash Brook	DYEHOUSE LANE CSO	11	1	99.4
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	MILNROW ROAD/PINE STREET CSO	5	0	96.7
United Utilities	River Roch Via Sws	TRAFALGAR STREET /RAMSEY STREET CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	Moss Brook, River Roch	MILNROW ROAD/FISHWICK STREET CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	Foxholes Brook	GREENBANK ROAD/ROSSALL ROAD CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Hey Brook Via Sws	BOND ST CSO	0	0	96.6
United Utilities	Piethorne Brook Rvr Beal	PEPPERMINT BRIDGE CSO	0	0	94.8

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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

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