Salford was polluted by sewage 1,200 times in 2023
lasting 3,895 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Salford in 2023
25 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,200 sewage dumps
3,895 h duration
That's 5.41 months. On average 3.3 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Salford 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 1 of the total 27 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK 105 1,722 100
United Utilities River Irwell CLIFTON PUMPING STATION 88 459 100
United Utilities Slack Brook CSO ADJ TO NUMBER 214 RAKE LANE 62 320 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 113 283 98.9
United Utilities River Irwell AGECROFT POWER STATION CSO 116 277 100
United Utilities Slack Brook MERE DRIVE / RAKE LANE CSO (374Y5) 47 173 97.9
United Utilities River Irwell LANGLEY ROAD CSO 60 136 100
United Utilities Gilda Brook LANCASTER RD RADCLIFFE RD CSO 372CC 67 83 62.6
United Utilities River Irwell GREAT CLOWES CSO 37048 SAL0080 95 80 98.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal CLOWES ST/DANIEL ADAMSON ROAD CSO 63 64 100
United Utilities Slack Brook Via Suface Water S QUEENSWAY CSO 36 54 100
United Utilities Folly Brook WELWYN DRIVE CSO 37044 84 46 77.2
United Utilities River Irwell FREDERICK ROAD CSO (371UV) 29 42 100
United Utilities River Irwell Via Sws LAUNDRY ST/DUCHY RD CSO 43 31 100
United Utilities Deans Brook Folly Bk REAR OF 256 DALES BROW CSO 43 28 100
United Utilities River Irwell COTTENHAM LANE CSO 372RZ 16 26 100
United Utilities River Irwell Via Sws ROBIN HOOD CLIFTON PUMPING STATION 13 22 100
United Utilities Folly Brook Via A Sws IN FIELDS REAR OF 36 EAST DRIVE CSO 14 15 100
United Utilities Slack Brook CITY WALK PS 7 5 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws HANKINSON WAY CSO 16 5 100
United Utilities Gilda Brook LANCASTER ROAD/HAYFIELD ROAD TANK 52 5 90.4
United Utilities Folly Brook Via Sws PARK ST/SWINTON HALL ROAD CSO 12 4 65.7
United Utilities River Irwell CROMWELL ROAD/LICHFIELD STREET CSO 14 2 100
United Utilities River Irwell AGECROFT COMMERCE PARK PUMPING STN 3 0 100
United Utilities River Irwell CLIFTON HOUSE ROAD PUMPING STATION 2 0 100
United Utilities River Irwell LANGLEY RD NORTH CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Folly Brook Via Sws DORCHESTER RD ADJ NO 182 MANCH CSO 0 0 99.9

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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