Rochdale was polluted by sewage 828 times in 2024
lasting 3,257 hours

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Live data for Rochdale in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 628 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Rochdale in 2024
28 Sites polluted by United Utilities
828 sewage dumps
3,257 h duration
That's 4.52 months. On average 2.3 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Rochdale, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rochdale in 2024. 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 Piethorne Brook Rvr Beal PEPPERMINT BRIDGE CSO 61 789 85.4
United Utilities River Roch OAKENROD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 101 661 99.4
United Utilities River Beal ASHES LANE CSO 53 547 100
United Utilities Clvrt Sec Of Sudden Brook OLDHAM ROAD CSO 35027 70 236 99.7
United Utilities River Spodden, River Roch FOOTWOOD / SPODDEN VALLEY CSO 37 227 99.7
United Utilities River Roch SMITH BRIDGE ROAD CSO 35051 15 142 100
United Utilities River Roch ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO 84 142 99.5
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws MILNROW ROAD/FISHWICK STREET CSO 75 125 99.6
United Utilities River Roch MILLGATE CSO 35025 43 94 99.4
United Utilities Suddon Brook HARTLEY LANE CSO 29 65 99.5
United Utilities Hey Brook River Roch YORKSHIRE ST OSWALD ST CSO 35024 26 37 99.4
United Utilities Culverted River Roch OAKCLIFFE ROAD CSO 26 33 98.2
United Utilities Stanney Brook NEWBOLD STREET CSO 37 31 99.9
United Utilities Ash Brook WATERHOUSE CLOSE (WARDLE) CSO 22 31 98.4
United Utilities River Roch SMITH ST AND JOHN ST CSO 35021 32 25 99.7
United Utilities Sanney Brook BELFIELD ROAD/BESWICKE ROYDS ST CSO 29 13 99.4
United Utilities Culverted River Roch Via Sws DRAKE STREET CSO (35038) 16 10 100
United Utilities River Roch ALBERT ROYDS STREET CSO 1 8 99.5
United Utilities Stanney Brook STANNEY ROAD CSO 8 8 99.2
United Utilities River Roch YORKSHIRE STREET CSO 35022 3 6 99.4
United Utilities River Roch WATER STREET CSO 12 4 99.5
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws MILNROW ROAD/PINE STREET CSO 14 3 99.3
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws MANCHESTER RD CSO (351TT) 11 3 99.3
United Utilities Lord Burn, River Roch ST MARYS GATE/CHEETHAM STREET CSO 8 2 99.2
United Utilities River Roch TOAD LANE - HIGH STREET CSO 7 1 98.8
United Utilities Ash Brook DYEHOUSE LANE CSO 5 0 98.7
United Utilities River Beal SHAW ROAD CSO 2 0 99.4
United Utilities River Roch Via Sws TRAFALGAR STREET /RAMSEY STREET CSO 1 0 99.4
United Utilities Hey Brook Via Sws BOND ST CSO 0 0 89
United Utilities Foxholes Brook GREENBANK ROAD/ROSSALL ROAD CSO 0 0 99.2

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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