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Totals for Bowdon in 2025

7 Sites polluted by United Utilities

366 sewage dumps

2,118 hours duration

That's 2.94 months. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bowdon 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 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 Bollin	HALE STORM TANKS & PUMPING STATION	129	996	99.9
United Utilities	River Bollin	BOWDON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	61	604	98.4
United Utilities	River Bollin	POOL BANK FARM BOWDON CSO 452L6	71	286	83.5
United Utilities	River Bollin	PARK ROAD ARTHOG ROAD CSO 452LS	74	203	99.9
United Utilities	Timperley Brook	STAMFORD NEW ROAD CSO	28	27	99.8
United Utilities	River Bollin Via Sws	CECIL ROAD/ASHLEY ROAD CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Timperley Brook	HAWTHORN ROAD CSO 451YJ	2	0	100

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.

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