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Totals for Bredbury and Woodley in 2025

21 Sites polluted by United Utilities

561 sewage dumps

2,139 hours duration

That's 2.97 months. On average 1.5 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bredbury and Woodley 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 Tame	DENTON TRANSFER PUMPING STATION	135	896	99.9
United Utilities	River Goyt	HURSTHEADS LANE/GREEN LANE CSO	81	299	99.2
United Utilities	River Tame	MEADOW LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	67	256	100
United Utilities	Denton Brook	ROSS LAVE LANE CSO	65	177	99.9
United Utilities	River Tame	SHERIDAN WAY CSO 44179	48	170	99.7
United Utilities	River Goyt Via Sws	COMPSTALL ROAD ROMILY CSO	46	133	98.6
United Utilities	River Tame	OFF GIBRALTER LANE CSO	55	61	99.3
United Utilities	River Tame	MANOR ROAD PUMPING STATION	10	28	72.1
United Utilities	River Goyt	NEWBRIDGE LANE CSO	2	27	83.6
United Utilities	Crookilley Brook Via A Sws	BREDBURY UID CSO TANK	5	25	93.5
United Utilities	River Tame	BRINNINGTON RISE CSO 431GD	4	12	99.4
United Utilities	Bredbury Stream Via Sws	HIGHER BENTS LANE/NEWLYN DR CSO	7	9	100
United Utilities	River Goyt	NEWBRIDGE LN CROMER ST CSO 432HT	1	8	100
United Utilities	River Tame	WAKELING RD/STOCKPORT RD	1	8	99.9
United Utilities	River Goyt	JUNC STRINGER ST/NEW BRIDGE LN CSO	7	5	91
United Utilities	River Tame	APETHORN LANE	2	5	99.8
United Utilities	River Goyt	CARRINGTON RD/OFFERTON ST	9	4	99.4
United Utilities	River Tame	OFF FOXHOLES ROAD CSO	10	3	99.8
United Utilities	River Goyt Via Sws	JUNC STRINGER ST/NEW BRIDGE LN CSO	2	3	99.9
United Utilities	River Goyt Via Sws	LANCASTER STREET CSO 432CD	1	1	89.1
United Utilities	River Goyt Via Sws	STOCKPORT ROAD WEST CSO	3	0	100
United Utilities	Crookilley Brook Culvert	242 STOCKPORT RD WEST	0	0	97.3
United Utilities	Crookilley Brook Via Sws	STOCKPORT RD WEST/ASHTON RD CSO	0	0	99.4
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.

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