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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sandbach 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 Croco | COOKESMERE LANE | 12 | 56 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Arclid Brook | FRONT STREET CSO 13521 | 40 | 54 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | MILL HILL LANE CSO 132F8 | 23 | 23 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | SANDBACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 12 | 23 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Unnamed River Wheelock | MIDDLEWICH ROAD CSO 131AD | 15 | 21 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Clvrtd Section Of Brook Mill | BROOK MILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 13 | 15 | 71.8 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | HASSALL ROAD CSO 131X8 | 15 | 10 | 96 |
| United Utilities | Trent And Mersey Canal | MOSS LANE SANDBACH 138CF | 14 | 9 | 99 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | CREWE ROAD MILL LANE CSO 138CG | 1 | 0 | 96.3 |
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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