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Salford - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,581 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,188 hours , potential overflows 1,748 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Salford for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 510 hours , 26 potential
Feb - 30 hours , 0 potential
Mar - 3 hours , 0 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 667 potential
May - 92 hours , 393 potential
Jun - 110 hours , 207 potential
Jul - 29 hours , 3 potential
Aug - 10 hours , 0 offline
Sept - 301 hours , 21 potential
Oct - 128 hours , 398 potential
Nov - 130 hours , 7 potential
Dec - 234 hours , 21 potential
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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 52 219 h 6m -
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 19 157 h 22m 1,260 h
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 53 122 h 8m 0 h
United Utilities Agecroft Power Station River Irwell 56 101 h 28m 178 h
United Utilities Radford Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 44 88 h 18m 803 h
United Utilities Clifton PS River Irwell 16 78 h 57m -
United Utilities Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 13 54 h 22m -
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 8 49 h 48m -
United Utilities Robin Hood (Clifton) PS River Irwell Via Sws 5 45 h 6 h
United Utilities Near City Walk Slack Brook 27 40 h 57m -
United Utilities Mere Drive/Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 15 40 h 42m 0 h
United Utilities The Queensway CSO Slack Brook Via Suface Water S 15 40 h 34m -
United Utilities BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK (37066) Manchester Ship Canal 8 36 h 1m -
United Utilities Clowes Street/Daniel Adamson Road CSO Manchester Ship Canal 32 35 h 28m 10 h
United Utilities Langley Road CSO River Irwell 28 34 h 44m 1 h
United Utilities Welwyn Drive CSO Folly Brook 61 34 h 22m 94 h
United Utilities Sherborne Street CSO River Irwell 17 33 h 36m 32 h
United Utilities Laundry Street/Duchy Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Irwell Via Sws 24 31 h 12m 5 h
United Utilities Cottenham Lane CSO River Irwell 9 28 h 42m 10 h
United Utilities Great Clowes Street/Sussex Street CSO River Irwell 22 26 h 3m -
United Utilities Frederick Road CSO River Irwell 9 24 h 38m 1 h
United Utilities Littleton Road CSO River Irwell 19 24 h 22m 2 h
United Utilities Near City Walk Slack Brook 5 22 h 11m -
United Utilities Agecroft Power Station River Irwell 12 22 h 2m -
United Utilities Rear of 256 Dales Brow CSO Deans Brook Folly Bk 20 21 h 30m -
United Utilities SALFORD WwTW Manchester Ship Canal 10 20 h 50m -
United Utilities Ashworth Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 15 18 h -
United Utilities Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 2 16 h 4m -
United Utilities Clifton House Road (37010) (SAL0145) River Irwell Via S.W. 4 15 h 38m 12 h
United Utilities BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK (37066) Manchester Ship Canal 1 13 h 4m -
United Utilities Welwyn Drive CSO Folly Brook 12 9 h 42m 27 h
United Utilities Lamplight Way Pumping Station River Irwell 1 8 h 52m -
United Utilities Clowes Street/Daniel Adamson Road CSO Manchester Ship Canal 4 8 h 50m -
United Utilities The Queensway CSO Slack Brook Via Suface Water S 1 8 h 19m -
United Utilities Great Clowes Street/Sussex Street CSO River Irwell 7 8 h 7m -
United Utilities Bury New Road/Lockett Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 4 7 h 34m 2 h
United Utilities Hankinson Way CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 5 5 h 10m 5 h
United Utilities Rear of 47 Vendale Avenue Deans Brook Via Sws 15 4 h 54m 1 h
United Utilities Littleton Road CSO River Irwell 2 4 h 52m -
United Utilities In fields at rear of 36 East Drive CSO Folly Brook Via A Sws 5 4 h 45m 1 h
United Utilities Mere Drive/Rake Lane CSO Slack Brook 1 3 h 56m -
United Utilities Park Street/Swinton Hall Road Folly Brook Via Sws 7 3 h 40m 0 h
United Utilities Langley Road North CSO River Irwell 9 1 h 12m 8 h
United Utilities Dorchester Rd, adj 182 Manchester Rd Folly Brook Via Sws 2 0 h 44m 78 h
United Utilities Laundry Street/Duchy Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Irwell Via Sws 1 0 h 38m -
United Utilities CROMWELL ROAD / LICHFIELD STREET CSO River Irwell 3 0 h 36m -
United Utilities Radford Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 3 0 h 36m -
United Utilities Sherborne Street CSO River Irwell 1 0 h 24m -
United Utilities Langley Road CSO River Irwell 1 0 h 24m -
United Utilities Langley Road North CSO River Irwell 3 0 h 21m 389 h
United Utilities Ashworth Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 1 0 h 20m -
United Utilities Rear of 256 Dales Brow CSO Deans Brook Folly Bk 2 0 h 16m -
United Utilities FAIRY LANE CSO River Irwell 3 0 h 12m 0 h
United Utilities Rear of 47 Vendale Avenue Deans Brook Via Sws 1 0 h 4m 0 h
United Utilities Bury New Road/Lockett Street CSO River Irwell Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities FAIRY LANE CSO River Irwell 0 0 h -
United Utilities Robin Hood (Clifton) PS River Irwell Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Hankinson Way CSO Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Lamplight Way Pumping Station River Irwell 0 0 h -
United Utilities Park Street/Swinton Hall Road Folly Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities CROMWELL ROAD / LICHFIELD STREET CSO River Irwell 0 0 h -
United Utilities Clifton House Road (37010) (SAL0145) River Irwell Via S.W. 0 0 h -
United Utilities Frederick Road CSO River Irwell 0 0 h -
United Utilities In fields at rear of 36 East Drive CSO Folly Brook Via A Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Dorchester Rd, adj 182 Manchester Rd Folly Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
United Utilities Cottenham Lane CSO River Irwell 0 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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