Rochdale was polluted by sewage 1,105 times in 2023
lasting 4,343 hours

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Totals for Rochdale in 2023
29 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,105 sewage dumps
4,343 h duration
That's 6.03 months. On average 3 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rochdale 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 30 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 Beal ASHES LANE CSO 81 1,230 100
United Utilities River Roch OAKENROD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 129 1,130 96.7
United Utilities River Spodden, River Roch FOOTWOOD / SPODDEN VALLEY CSO 61 498 100
United Utilities Clvrt Sec Of Sudden Brook OLDHAM ROAD CSO 35027 96 371 100
United Utilities River Roch SMITH BRIDGE ROAD CSO 35051 38 330 99.9
United Utilities River Roch MILLGATE CSO 35025 92 243 100
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws MILNROW ROAD/FISHWICK STREET CSO 90 93 100
United Utilities River Roch ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO 35 76 45.2
United Utilities River Roch ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO 19 53 100
United Utilities Hey Brook River Roch YORKSHIRE ST OSWALD ST CSO 35024 50 48 70.3
United Utilities Suddon Brook HARTLEY LANE CSO 31 46 100
United Utilities Culverted River Roch OAKCLIFFE ROAD CSO 47 39 100
United Utilities River Roch SMITH ST AND JOHN ST CSO 35021 53 35 71
United Utilities Ash Brook DYEHOUSE LANE CSO 20 33 99.2
United Utilities Stanney Brook NEWBOLD STREET CSO 53 31 100
United Utilities Ash Brook WATERHOUSE CLOSE (WARDLE) CSO 34 28 91.5
United Utilities Sanney Brook BELFIELD ROAD/BESWICKE ROYDS ST CSO 40 14 100
United Utilities Culverted River Roch Via Sws DRAKE STREET CSO (35038) 35 13 97.3
United Utilities Lord Burn, River Roch ST MARYS GATE/CHEETHAM STREET CSO 18 4 95.1
United Utilities River Roch WATER STREET CSO 22 4 100
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws MANCHESTER RD CSO (351TT) 20 4 100
United Utilities River Roch TOAD LANE - HIGH STREET CSO 14 3 100
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws TRAFALGAR STREET /RAMSEY STREET CSO 11 3 96.3
United Utilities Stanney Brook STANNEY ROAD CSO 6 2 100
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws MILNROW ROAD/PINE STREET CSO 6 1 88.6
United Utilities River Roch YORKSHIRE STREET CSO 35022 1 0 96.6
United Utilities River Beal SHAW ROAD CSO 1 0 94.7
United Utilities Piethorne Brook Rvr Beal PEPPERMINT BRIDGE CSO 1 0 66.7
United Utilities Foxholes Brook GREENBANK ROAD/ROSSALL ROAD CSO 1 0 99.6
United Utilities Hey Brook Via Sws BOND ST CSO 0 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. 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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