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Bury (Bury)

Polluted by sewage 692 times in 2025 lasting 2,102 hours

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Totals for Bury (Bury) in 2025

22 Sites polluted by United Utilities

692 sewage dumps

2,102 hours duration

That's 2.92 months. On average 1.9 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bury (Bury) 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 Irwell	BURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	95	759	100
United Utilities	River Roch	HEYWOOD (BOTANY STW) CSO	35	240	99.9
United Utilities	Black Brook	NEW STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	68	170	98.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	TANPITS ROAD CSO	53	166	99.9
United Utilities	River Irwell	BUCKLEY WELLS CSO 091DG	51	123	99.9
United Utilities	Walmersley Brook	BURNLEY ROAD CSO 099BL	67	100	98.9
United Utilities	Parr Brook	PARR BROOK CSO	42	96	100
United Utilities	River Roch	PEEL LANE CSO NO. 1	43	92	99.9
United Utilities	Kirklees Brook	OFF BRANDLESHOLME RD (MH12) CSO	31	76	99.9
United Utilities	Parr Brook Via Sws	SUNNY BANK ROAD CSO	32	75	100
United Utilities	Barn Brook	PIMHOLE CSO	49	71	99.8
United Utilities	Black Lane Brook	ST ANDREWS RD BROOKS AV CSO 09001	10	38	99.5
United Utilities	River Roch	ROCHDALE ROAD/WASH LANE SSO	25	26	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	SEEDFIELD SECONDARY MODERN SCHL CSO	24	21	60.7
United Utilities	River Roch	WATERFOLD LANE CSO	30	14	96.3
United Utilities	Parr Brook	LINKSVIEW ESTATE CSO 091BC	18	9	98.5
United Utilities	Woodhill Brook	WOODHILL ROAD CSO 092JP	5	7	99.5
United Utilities	River Irwell	WATERSIDE MILL CSO	3	6	61.8
United Utilities	Clv River Roch	OPP 182 ROCHDALE ROAD CSO (BRY0141)	4	3	96.9
United Utilities	River Irwell	MORRIS STREET CSO (BRY0137)	5	0	99.8
United Utilities	Unnamed Pond	CHURCH STREET WEST CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Clvrtd Section Gypsy Brook	KINGFISHER DRIVE CSO 092BS	1	0	100
United Utilities	Walmersely Brook	807 WALMERSLEY ROAD (BURY) CSO	0	0	96.5
United Utilities	River Roch	BRIDGE HALL LANE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Pigs Lea Brook Rvr Irwell	OFF WALMERSLEY ROAD CSO 092JL	0	0	100
United Utilities	Barn Brook	PRIMROSE HILL CSO	0	0	77.6
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Culvert	REDVALES ROAD CSO	0	0	94.4
United Utilities	River Irwell	DUMERS LANE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Roch	MANCHESTER ROAD CSO	0	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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