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Totals for Denton (Tameside) in 2025

27 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,041 sewage dumps

4,486 hours duration

That's 6.23 months. On average 2.9 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Denton (Tameside) 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 Tame	ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE STW	77	811	99.9
United Utilities	River Tame	DUKINFIELD WWTW	103	745	100
United Utilities	River Tame	HYDE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	87	405	97.7
United Utilities	River Tame	MEADOW LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	67	256	100
United Utilities	River Tame	BROOMSTAIR ROAD CSO	43	253	98.2
United Utilities	Denton Brook Via Sws	REAR OF KENNEDY WAY CSO	83	231	98.4
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 Tame	RAGLAN STREET CSO 44180	58	135	100
United Utilities	Denton Brook River Tame	TOWN LANE CIRCULAR ROAD CSO 44020	46	89	99.4
United Utilities	River Tame	OFF GIBRALTER LANE CSO	55	61	99.3
United Utilities	River Tame	HYDE ROAD (DENTON) CSO	40	50	99.8
United Utilities	River Tame Via Sws	EDWARD STREET	27	37	99.7
United Utilities	Denton Brook Via Sws	VICTORIA ST/ACRE ST CSO (442WA)	34	37	97.3
United Utilities	River Tame	MANOR ROAD PUMPING STATION	10	28	72.1
United Utilities	Unnamed Denton Brk Sws	THORNLEY LANE SOUTH CSO 44019	10	21	99.8
United Utilities	Denton Brook Via Sws	SHOECROFT GARAGE SITE CSO	15	19	99.2
United Utilities	Denton Brook Via Clvr Wcourse	WINDMILL LANE CSO 44012	9	13	98
United Utilities	River Tame	WAKELING RD/STOCKPORT RD	1	8	99.9
United Utilities	River Tame	MILL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	7	99.7
United Utilities	River Tame	OFF MANOR ROAD CSO 442JF	6	6	99.9
United Utilities	River Tame	APETHORN LANE	2	5	99.8
United Utilities	River Tame	DUKINFIELD OUTFALL SEWER CSO 441SM	5	5	86.4
United Utilities	River Tame Via Sws	OFF ST LAWRENCES ROAD CSO	2	4	100
United Utilities	River Tame	OFF FOXHOLES ROAD CSO	10	3	99.8
United Utilities	Unnamed River Tame	DUKINFIELD RD THROSTLE BANK ST CSO	2	3	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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