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Salford

Polluted by sewage 1,013 times in 2025 lasting 1,481 hours

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Totals for Salford in 2025

46 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,013 sewage dumps

1,481 hours duration

That's 2.06 months. On average 2.8 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for 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	Manchester Ship Canal	SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	84	278	96.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	AGECROFT POWER STATION CSO	73	124	97.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	RAINSOUGH BROW CSO	42	100	60.1
United Utilities	River Irwell	BEAUMONT BUILDING CSO 28049	34	71	99.8
United Utilities	River Medlock	CHESTER ROAD/GREAT JACKSON ROAD CSO	13	66	99.7
United Utilities	River Irwell	JULIA SREETT CSO	49	61	98.3
United Utilities	Gilda Brook	LANCASTER RD RADCLIFFE RD CSO 372CC	50	56	99.4
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	Folly Brook	WELWYN DRIVE CSO 37044	77	38	98.5
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	River Irk	ASPIN LANE CSO 281CJ	50	35	99.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	LANGLEY ROAD CSO	32	33	99.9
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Sws	LAUNDRY ST/DUCHY RD CSO	27	33	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	VICTORIA BRIDGE STREET CSO (282WL)	34	31	99.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	LITTLETON ROAD CSO	23	31	99.7
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Sws	RADFORD STREET CSO	30	31	99.5
United Utilities	River Irwell	SHERBORNE STREET CSO	18	30	91.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	COTTENHAM LANE CSO 372RZ	8	28	99.8
United Utilities	Prestwich Clough Clvrt Irwell	CARR CLOUGH CSO 091IG	35	27	99.9
United Utilities	River Irwell	GREAT CLOWES CSO 37048 SAL0080	35	25	99.7
United Utilities	River Irwell	FREDERICK ROAD CSO (371UV)	10	24	96.4
United Utilities	Singleton Brook	BURY NEW ROAD CSO	27	23	99.8
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	River Irwell	WATER ST/NEW QUAY ST CSO	10	18	100
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Sws	BURY NEW ROAD SALFORD CSO	24	17	100
United Utilities	Singleton Brook	PRESTWICH GOLF COURSE CSO 093IR	8	15	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	WATER STREET CSO (284TV)	5	10	96.1
United Utilities	River Irwell	AGECROFT COMMERCE PARK PUMPING STN	1	8	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	NORTHUMBERLAND RD/STRETFORD RD CSO	4	7	84.2
United Utilities	River Irwell	BRIDGE STREET CSO	10	6	100
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Srf Wtr Sewer	BURY NEW RD LOCKETT ST CSO	5	5	100
United Utilities	River Irk	MILLER STREET/CORPORATION ST CSO	14	5	57.6
United Utilities	Folly Brook Via A Sws	IN FIELDS REAR OF 36 EAST DRIVE CSO	5	3	99.8
United Utilities	Folly Brook Via Sws	PARK ST/SWINTON HALL ROAD CSO	8	3	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	HANKINSON WAY CSO	5	3	94.5
United Utilities	River Irwell	BLACKFRIARS STREET CSO 283J1	20	3	99.8
United Utilities	Singleton Brook R Irwell	MATHER AVE ALBERT AVE CSO	7	3	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	BRIDGE ST WEST CSO (281F9)	4	2	100
United Utilities	River Irwell	LANGLEY RD NORTH CSO	5	1	95.9
United Utilities	River Irwell	CROMWELL ROAD/LICHFIELD STREET CSO	5	0	100
United Utilities	Folly Brook Via Sws	DORCHESTER RD ADJ NO 182 MANCH CSO	2	0	96.8
United Utilities	Gilda Brook Via Sws	VICTORIA RD/ORVIETTO AVENUE CSO	2	0	100
United Utilities	River Irk	VERDON STREET/SCOTLAND CSO	1	0	90.6
United Utilities	River Irwell Via Culvert	AGECROFT ROAD EAST CSO	0	0	98.3
United Utilities	River Irk	BROMLEY STREET CSO 281MT	0	0	92.8
United Utilities	River Irwell	BURY NEW ROAD/WATERLOO ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9
United Utilities	River Medlock	GREAT BRIDGEWATER ST CSO (281WI)	0	0	86.5
United Utilities	River Irk	HUNTS BANK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	99.4
United Utilities	River Irk	LONG MILLGATE CSO	0	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.

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