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Stockport

Polluted by sewage 608 times in 2025 lasting 1,648 hours

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Live data for Stockport in 2026

So far this year (as of 16 Aug 2026, 13:45) there has been 472 hours of sewage overflows, from 58 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Stockport in 2025

24 Sites polluted by United Utilities
608 sewage dumps
1,648 hours duration
That's 2.29 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stockport in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Mersey STOCKPORT WWTW 100 632 100
United Utilities River Mersey HOPE STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 84 184 99.3
United Utilities River Tame PENNY LANE GRIMESBOTTOM CSO 43122 35 137 99.7
United Utilities River Mersey WELLINGTON ROAD SOUTH CSO 50 115 66.8
United Utilities River Mersey PRINCES STREET CSO 54 113 99.6
United Utilities River Mersey THE CIRCUIT CSO 432UT 56 101 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey TRAVIS BROW/GEORGES ROAD CSO 56 86 99.8
United Utilities Clvrt Section Of River Mersey GREAT UNDERBANK CSO 43200 STK0039 39 75 69.5
United Utilities River Mersey Estuary Via Sws STOCKPORT RD ESSEX AVE CSO 432SK 29 33 99.4
United Utilities River Goyt NEWBRIDGE LANE CSO 2 27 83.6
United Utilities River Goyt AVENUE ST BREWERY ST CSO 11 26 100
United Utilities River Mersey HEATON MOOR CSO 431YX 17 24 97.1
United Utilities River Mersey BRIGHTON ROAD CSO 28 21 97
United Utilities River Mersey BRINKSWAY BRIDGE/GVILLE STREET CSO 2 13 99.5
United Utilities River Tame BRINNINGTON RISE CSO 431GD 4 12 99.4
United Utilities River Mersey CHESTERGATE CSO 431A3 6 9 99.8
United Utilities River Goyt NEWBRIDGE LN CROMER ST CSO 432HT 1 8 100
United Utilities River Mersey 95/97 CRAIG ROAD HEATON MERSEY CSO 5 6 99.9
United Utilities River Goyt JUNC STRINGER ST/NEW BRIDGE LN CSO 7 5 91
United Utilities River Goyt CARRINGTON RD/OFFERTON ST 9 4 99.4
United Utilities River Goyt Via Sws JUNC STRINGER ST/NEW BRIDGE LN CSO 2 3 99.9
United Utilities River Mersey CHESTERGATE/KING STREET WEST CSO 5 2 98
United Utilities River Goyt Via Sws LANCASTER STREET CSO 432CD 1 1 89.1
United Utilities River Mersey 103 BRINKSWAY/LARK HILL 5 0 99.7
United Utilities River Goyt NEWBRIDGE LANE CSO 0 0 94.6

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. 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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