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Totals for Cheadle (Stockport) in 2025

12 Sites polluted by United Utilities

335 sewage dumps

1,222 hours duration

That's 1.7 months. 6.4 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cheadle (Stockport) 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 Mersey	STOCKPORT WWTW	100	632	100
United Utilities	River Mersey	650YDS DS KINGWAY RVR BRIDGE CSO	48	219	99.8
United Utilities	Micker Brook	CHEADLE GOLF COURSE CSO (43198)	36	121	99.1
United Utilities	River Mersey	THE CIRCUIT CSO 432UT	56	101	99.9
United Utilities	River Mersey Estuary Via Sws	STOCKPORT RD ESSEX AVE CSO 432SK	29	33	99.4
United Utilities	Chorlton Brook	MILL LANE CEMETERY CSO	15	31	96.1
United Utilities	River Mersey	HEATON MOOR CSO 431YX	17	24	97.1
United Utilities	Micker Brook	258 COUNCILLOR LANE	6	23	100
United Utilities	Turves Brook, Micker Brk	59D TURVES ROAD CSO 432VY	8	16	100
United Utilities	Unknown	ABNEY HALL	12	10	100
United Utilities	River Mersey	95/97 CRAIG ROAD HEATON MERSEY CSO	5	6	99.9
United Utilities	Gatley Brook Via Sws	ALTRINCHAM RD WESTEND AVE CSO 431BS	3	1	95.3

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EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

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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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