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Alsager

Polluted by sewage 176 times in 2025 lasting 727 hours

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

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Totals for Alsager in 2025

10 Sites polluted by United Utilities
176 sewage dumps
727 hours duration
That's 4.33 weeks. 3.4 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Alsager 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 place 1 of the total 11 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 Kidsgrove Stream LAWTON GATE WWTW 57 539 99.75
United Utilities River Dane ALSAGER STW 19 75 96.8
United Utilities Trent CHESTNUT AVENUE PS 23 66 95.1
United Utilities Valley Brook 58/64 AUDLEY ROAD CSO 23 21 100
United Utilities Day Green Stream 113 HASSALL RD CSO 11 11 71.5
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws ASHEMORES LANE LAWTON RD CSO 131CE 17 7 94.6
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD B CSO 13567 8 2 95
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD A CSO 13567 12 2 99.9
United Utilities Valley Brook HASSALL RD CREWE RD CSO 131QJ 4 0 99.9
United Utilities Valley Brook Via Sws AUDLEY RD/TALKE RD JUNCTION CSO 2 0 42.8
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws LAWTON ROAD WESLEY AVE CSO 132CM 0 0 99

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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