Salford was polluted by sewage 921 times in 2024
lasting 2,135 hours

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Live data for Salford in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 895 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Salford in 2024
26 Sites polluted by United Utilities
921 sewage dumps
2,135 h duration
That's 2.97 months. On average 2.5 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 Salford, 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 Salford 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 27 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 Irwell CLIFTON PUMPING STATION 80 410 100
United Utilities Slack Brook CSO ADJ TO NUMBER 214 RAKE LANE 40 353 97.2
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 100 305 99.9
United Utilities River Irwell AGECROFT POWER STATION CSO 113 285 98.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK 20 115 100
United Utilities Gilda Brook LANCASTER RD RADCLIFFE RD CSO 372CC 73 94 99
United Utilities River Irwell GREAT CLOWES CSO 37048 SAL0080 69 65 99.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal CLOWES ST/DANIEL ADAMSON ROAD CSO 47 54 99.3
United Utilities River Irwell LANGLEY ROAD CSO 43 51 99
United Utilities River Irwell Via Sws ROBIN HOOD CLIFTON PUMPING STATION 16 45 99.2
United Utilities Slack Brook Via Suface Water S QUEENSWAY CSO 22 44 100
United Utilities Slack Brook CITY WALK PS 30 43 100
United Utilities River Irwell Via Sws LAUNDRY ST/DUCHY RD CSO 26 39 99.3
United Utilities Folly Brook WELWYN DRIVE CSO 37044 82 34 97.1
United Utilities Slack Brook MERE DRIVE / RAKE LANE CSO (374Y5) 18 33 99.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws HANKINSON WAY CSO 10 32 99.2
United Utilities River Irwell COTTENHAM LANE CSO 372RZ 16 28 99
United Utilities Folly Brook Via A Sws IN FIELDS REAR OF 36 EAST DRIVE CSO 12 23 89.9
United Utilities River Irwell FREDERICK ROAD CSO (371UV) 11 23 92.6
United Utilities Deans Brook Folly Bk REAR OF 256 DALES BROW CSO 16 21 72.6
United Utilities River Irwell CLIFTON HOUSE ROAD PUMPING STATION 4 7 98.8
United Utilities Gilda Brook LANCASTER ROAD/HAYFIELD ROAD TANK 54 7 93.8
United Utilities Folly Brook Via Sws PARK ST/SWINTON HALL ROAD CSO 8 4 97.5
United Utilities River Irwell AGECROFT COMMERCE PARK PUMPING STN 2 4 95.1
United Utilities River Irwell LANGLEY RD NORTH CSO 4 2 98.4
United Utilities River Irwell CROMWELL ROAD/LICHFIELD STREET CSO 5 0 99.3
United Utilities Folly Brook Via Sws DORCHESTER RD ADJ NO 182 MANCH CSO 0 0 96.6

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.

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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