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Worsley and Eccles

Polluted by sewage 524 times in 2025 lasting 2,681 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Worsley and Eccles in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 09:15) there has been 807 hours of sewage overflows, from 54 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Worsley and Eccles in 2025

20 Sites polluted by United Utilities
524 sewage dumps
2,681 hours duration
That's 3.72 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Worsley and Eccles 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 1 of the total 21 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Moss Brook TYLDESLEY STW 50 605 100
United Utilities Salteye Brook ECCLES STW 98 597 91
United Utilities River Glaze IRLAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 96 592 100
United Utilities Salteye Brook WINTON OUTFALL 69 259 100
United Utilities Ellen Brook VICARS HALL LANE PS NO 2 15 153 100
United Utilities Worsley Brook BARTON ROAD PS & CSO 25 136 100
United Utilities Shaw Brook BOOTHS BANK FARM CSO (37046) 17 122 89.6
United Utilities Kempnough Brook GREENLEACH LANE CSO 8 51 100
United Utilities Astley Brook EAST LANCS ROAD PUMPING STATION 17 31 100
United Utilities Sindsley Brook Via Sws OPPOSITE NO 1 GRANBY ROAD CSO 28 23 99.9
United Utilities Salteye Brook Via Sws LIVERPOOL ROAD/NEWHALL AVENUE CSO 36 21 99.8
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal FAIRHILLS ROAD CSO (37002) 14 21 99.3
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal LORDS STREET/LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO 10 16 96.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws BARTON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 14 100
United Utilities Honksford Brook PARR BRIDGE/MOSLEY COMMON RD CSO 8 14 89.8
United Utilities River Glaze LORDS STREET/FIR STREET CSO 2 9 41.7
United Utilities Deans Brook Via Sws REAR OF 47 VENDALE AVE CSO (379AE) 17 5 99.8
United Utilities Sniggley Ditch FIR TREE AVENUE PUMPING STATION 2 1 100
United Utilities Kempnough Brook Vi Sws GLYNRENE DRIVE CSO 2 0 95.9
United Utilities Gilda Brook Via Sws VICTORIA RD/ORVIETTO AVENUE CSO 2 0 100
United Utilities Gilda Brook BENTCLIFFE WAY/WOOD ST CSO 0 0 89.6

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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