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Salford - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 267 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 127 hours , potential overflows 176 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Salford so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 21 hours , 1 potential
Feb - 112 hours , 10 potential
Mar - 86 hours , 163 potential
Apr - 33 hours , 1 potential
May - 13 hours , 100 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities Clifton PS River Irwell 25 63h 4m -
United Utilities Welwyn Drive CSO Folly Brook 30 36h 46m 39 h
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 12 27h 32m 0 h
United Utilities Agecroft Power Station River Irwell 21 26h 18m -
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 19 24h 11m 155 h
United Utilities Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 8 23h 24m -
United Utilities BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK (37066) Manchester Ship Canal 6 15h 7m -
United Utilities Langley Road North CSO River Irwell 3 8h 28m 100 h
United Utilities Near City Walk Slack Brook 12 7h 8m 2 h
United Utilities Clowes Street/Daniel Adamson Road CSO Manchester Ship Canal 10 6h 28m 1 h
United Utilities Great Clowes Street/Sussex Street CSO River Irwell 9 5h 7m 0 h
United Utilities Langley Road CSO River Irwell 7 4h 44m -
United Utilities Mere Drive/Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 6 4h 4m 0 h
United Utilities Laundry Street/Duchy Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Irwell Via Sws 5 3h 26m -
United Utilities Littleton Road CSO River Irwell 4 2h 14m -
United Utilities Radford Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 3 1h 50m -
United Utilities The Queensway CSO Slack Brook Via Suface Water S 3 1h 33m -
United Utilities Rear of 256 Dales Brow CSO Deans Brook Folly Bk 4 1h 30m -
United Utilities Sherborne Street CSO River Irwell 3 0h 56m -
United Utilities Ashworth Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 3 0h 35m -
United Utilities Lancaster Road/Hayfield Road Detention Tank Gilda Brook 1 0h 35m -
United Utilities Bury New Road/Lockett Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 1 0h 30m -
United Utilities Robin Hood (Clifton) PS River Irwell Via Sws 1 0h 28m -
United Utilities Park Street/Swinton Hall Road Folly Brook Via Sws 1 0h 24m -
United Utilities Rear of 47 Vendale Avenue Deans Brook Via Sws 1 0h 12m 3 h
United Utilities CROMWELL ROAD / LICHFIELD STREET CSO River Irwell 1 0h 10m -
United Utilities In fields at rear of 36 East Drive CSO Folly Brook Via A Sws 1 0h 8m -
United Utilities Clifton House Road (37010) (SAL0145) River Irwell Via S.W. 1 0h 6m -
United Utilities Great Clowes Street/Sussex Street CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Ashworth Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Near City Walk Slack Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lamplight Way Pumping Station River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 0 0h -
United Utilities FAIRY LANE CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Langley Road North CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Agecroft Power Station River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Langley Road CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Robin Hood (Clifton) PS River Irwell Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Clifton PS River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Dorchester Rd, adj 182 Manchester Rd Folly Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Welwyn Drive CSO Folly Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Bury New Road/Lockett Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear of 256 Dales Brow CSO Deans Brook Folly Bk 0 0h -
United Utilities Hankinson Way CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Littleton Road CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Laundry Street/Duchy Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Irwell Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Hankinson Way CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities The Queensway CSO Slack Brook Via Suface Water S 0 0h -
United Utilities Rear of 47 Vendale Avenue Deans Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Lamplight Way Pumping Station River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Park Street/Swinton Hall Road Folly Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities In fields at rear of 36 East Drive CSO Folly Brook Via A Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Clowes Street/Daniel Adamson Road CSO Manchester Ship Canal 0 0h -
United Utilities CROMWELL ROAD / LICHFIELD STREET CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Frederick Road CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Frederick Road CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities FAIRY LANE CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK (37066) Manchester Ship Canal 0 0h -
United Utilities Cottenham Lane CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Sherborne Street CSO River Irwell 0 0h -
United Utilities Mere Drive/Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Dorchester Rd, adj 182 Manchester Rd Folly Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 0 0h -
United Utilities Radford Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Clifton House Road (37010) (SAL0145) River Irwell Via S.W. 0 0h -
United Utilities Cottenham Lane CSO River Irwell 0 0h 0 h

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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