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Stalybridge

Polluted by sewage 380 times in 2025 lasting 1,761 hours

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Totals for Stalybridge in 2025

17 Sites polluted by United Utilities
380 sewage dumps
1,761 hours duration
That's 2.45 months. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stalybridge 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 Tame MOSSLEY STW 108 1,093 99.2
United Utilities River Tame GROVE ROAD CSO 71 246 99.6
United Utilities River Tame TAME STREET/PARK ROAD CSO 50 178 86.3
United Utilities River Tame LOWER WHARF ST/SCOTLAND ST 60 110 100
United Utilities Swineshaw Brook Rvr Tame CANAL BANK TRANSFORMER HSE CSO 33 63 87.4
United Utilities Clvrt Sect Swineshaw Brook OFF GROVE ROAD CSO 44217 9 19 100
United Utilities River Tame RASSBOTTOM STREET CSO 3 11 98.6
United Utilities Stocks Brook FERN BANK CSO 7 8 99.8
United Utilities River Tame BINNS STREET CSO 1 5 99.8
United Utilities Culvert To River Tame HUDDERSFIELD ROAD CSO (449BD) 8 5 99.7
United Utilities Swineshaw Brook Via Sws STAMFORD ST CSO (442SC) 2 4 95.4
United Utilities River Tame MANCHESTER ROAD CSO 18 3 99.7
United Utilities River Tame KNOWLE STREET CSO 442BX 2 2 100
United Utilities A Culverted To River Tame BUCKTON VALE ROAD CSO 1 2 100
United Utilities Clvrt Sec Unnamed Rvrtame OFF HUDDERSFIELD ROAD CSO 442JA 2 2 96.1
United Utilities River Tame WAGGON ROAD CSO 2 1 92.6
United Utilities River Tame TRINITY ST/DEAN ST 3 1 100
United Utilities Cock Brook ARGYL STREET 0 0 88.8
United Utilities Acres Brook Via Sws 212 MOTTRAM ROAD CSO 0 0 99.8
United Utilities Culvert To River Tame HANOVER STREET CSO 0 0 98.9
United Utilities River Tame Via Sws HOUGH HILL ROAD/GRASSCROFT ST CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Stocks Brook ILLINGWORTH AVENUE 0 0 96.3
United Utilities River Tame MARKET STREET/TRINITY STREET CSO 0 0 99.5
United Utilities River Tame MELBOURNE STREET 0 0 99.4
United Utilities River Tame ST GEORGE STREET/HANOVER STREET CSO 0 0 98
United Utilities River Tame Via A Culvert STAMFORD GROVE CSO 0 0 99.6
United Utilities Stocks Brook STOCKS LANE 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.

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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