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Totals for Old Trafford in 2025

20 Sites polluted by United Utilities

352 sewage dumps

859 hours duration

That's 1.19 months. 6.8 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Old Trafford 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	Manchester Ship Canal	SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	84	278	96.2
United Utilities	Bent Lanes Brook Via Sw Sewer	LOSTOCK ROAD CSO	54	175	99.7
United Utilities	River Medlock	CHESTER ROAD/GREAT JACKSON ROAD CSO	13	66	99.7
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	ROLLS CRESCENT/YEW STREET CSO	14	50	99.9
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK	9	48	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	CLOWES ST/DANIEL ADAMSON ROAD CSO	37	44	99.3
United Utilities	River Irwell	WATER STREET/LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO	11	36	86.4
United Utilities	River Medlock	EGERTON ST WORSLEY ST CSO	45	35	98.9
United Utilities	Chorlton Brook Via Sws	EDGE LANE/WILBRAHAM CSO	25	33	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	TRAFFORD PARK ROAD CSO	8	22	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	STRETFORD RD/UPPER MOSS LN JUNC CSO	7	22	99.2
United Utilities	Bent Lanes Brook/Longford Broo	329 BARTON ROAD CSO	19	15	99.6
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	BARTON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	8	14	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	NORTHUMBERLAND RD/STRETFORD RD CSO	4	7	84.2
United Utilities	Longford Brook Ship Canal	BRADWELL AVENUE CSO	4	4	96.5
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	ASHBURTON RD/CENTRAL PARK CSO	3	2	99.9
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	DUMPLINGTON CIRCLE	2	0	91.2
United Utilities	Longford Brook Ship Canal	CASTLETON AVENUE CSO 451IU	3	0	99.8
United Utilities	Longford Brook Via Sws	LOSTOCK GROVE CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Bent Lane Brook	PARK ROAD (STRETFORD) CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Ousel Brook	3 WOOD ROAD CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Longford Brook Ship Canal	CROMFORD AVENUE CSO 451P7	0	0	100
United Utilities	Longford Brook	DAVYHULME ROAD EAST	0	0	99.7
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	FIRST AVENUE CSO	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.

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