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Totals for Marple in 2025

10 Sites polluted by United Utilities

470 sewage dumps

2,438 hours duration

That's 3.39 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 Marple 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 Goyt	OTTERSPOOL ROAD CSO	117	728	99.4
United Utilities	River Etherow	LOW MARPLE STW	72	414	98.4
United Utilities	River Goyt	STRINES STW	65	375	99.2
United Utilities	River Goyt	HAZEL GROVE STW	38	360	100
United Utilities	River Goyt	COMPSTALL RD (NEAR IRONBRIDGE) CSO	63	229	99.9
United Utilities	River Goyt	BONGS VALLEY PUMPING STATION	54	170	100
United Utilities	River Goyt	TOWN STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	76	100
United Utilities	River Goyt	BONGS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	35	71	99.6
United Utilities	River Etherow	COMPSTALL ROAD CSO	6	5	99.9
United Utilities	Culvert To River Tame	CUMBERLAND STREET CSO	5	5	99.9
United Utilities	Torkington Brook Via Sws	19 WOOD LANE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Marple Brk Torkington Br	36 HIBBERT LANE CSO 431Y7	0	0	97.1
United Utilities	Marple Brook Via Sws	STOCKPORT ROAD/HILL TOP DRIVE 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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