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Eccles (Salford)

Polluted by sewage 467 times in 2025 lasting 1,406 hours

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Totals for Eccles (Salford) in 2025

13 Sites polluted by United Utilities
467 sewage dumps
1,406 hours duration
That's 1.95 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Eccles (Salford) 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 Salteye Brook ECCLES STW 98 597 91
United Utilities Salteye Brook WINTON OUTFALL 69 259 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DAVYHULME WWTW 34 227 97.8
United Utilities Worsley Brook BARTON ROAD PS & CSO 25 136 100
United Utilities Gilda Brook LANCASTER RD RADCLIFFE RD CSO 372CC 50 56 99.4
United Utilities Folly Brook WELWYN DRIVE CSO 37044 77 38 98.5
United Utilities Sindsley Brook Via Sws OPPOSITE NO 1 GRANBY ROAD CSO 28 23 99.9
United Utilities Deans Brook Folly Bk REAR OF 256 DALES BROW CSO 21 22 100
United Utilities Salteye Brook Via Sws LIVERPOOL ROAD/NEWHALL AVENUE CSO 36 21 99.8
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws BARTON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 14 100
United Utilities Deans Brook Via Sws REAR OF 47 VENDALE AVE CSO (379AE) 17 5 99.8
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DUMPLINGTON CIRCLE 2 0 91.2
United Utilities Gilda Brook Via Sws VICTORIA RD/ORVIETTO AVENUE CSO 2 0 100
United Utilities Gilda Brook LANCASTER ROAD/HAYFIELD ROAD TANK 0 0 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON SSO 0 0 98.5
United Utilities Gilda Brook BENTCLIFFE WAY/WOOD ST CSO 0 0 89.6

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.

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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