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Congleton

Polluted by sewage 295 times in 2025 lasting 793 hours

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Totals for Congleton in 2025

10 Sites polluted by United Utilities
295 sewage dumps
793 hours duration
That's 1.1 months. 5.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Congleton 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 Loach Brook WEST HEATH PUMPING STATION 28 214 100
United Utilities Dane In Shaw Brook BERISFORDS COMPOUND CSO 131G3 58 174 99.9
United Utilities River Dane CONGLETON STW 34 136 99.95
United Utilities River Dane EATON BANK CSO 131S4 64 107 99.2
United Utilities Dane-In-Shaw Brook MILL LANE CSO (134I5) 30 83 99.5
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws THE GRANGE CONGLETON CSO 40 53 99.8
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws BROMLEY RD CORONATION RD CSO 131GZ 23 12 95.9
United Utilities River Dane HAVANNAH STREET/ REDFERN AVE CSO 14 8 100
United Utilities Dane-In-Shaw Brook CASTLE INN ROAD MOSSLEY CSO 2 1 99.9
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws BROMLEY ROAD CSO 2 0 98.8
United Utilities River Dane DANE STREET CSO 131Q1 0 0 96
United Utilities River Dane Via S/Water Sewer SEFTON AVENUE CSO (CON0090) 0 0 95.8

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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