Manchester Ship Canal polluted by sewage 1,458 times in 2023 - lasting 9,117 hours

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Totals for Manchester Ship Canal in 2023
25 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,458 sewage dumps
9,117 h duration
That's 1.06 years! On average 4 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Manchester Ship Canal in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 153 1,790 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK 105 1,722 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal LOCK LANE PARTINGTON CSO 193 1,684 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DAVYHULME WWTW 85 1,447 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON SSO 104 713 96.5
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal POWERHOUSE ROAD PUMPING STATION 86 350 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 113 283 98.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WALTON PS 43 271 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal TOWN PUMPING STATION 36 266 89.3
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal EXPRESSWAY 8 RUNCORN 82 143 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal PENN LANE WESTON POINT PR CSO 202LE 76 89 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal HALTON BROW CSO 203EF 89 84 99.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal CLOWES ST/DANIEL ADAMSON ROAD CSO 63 64 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal LORDS STREET/LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO 50 47 97.2
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal PARKGATE FARM (WARBURTON) CSO 38 41 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DUMPLINGTON CIRCLE 5 28 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal HARDWICK ROADCSO 15 25 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal FAIRHILLS ROAD CSO (37002) 26 22 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal KNUTSFORD RD/GRAMMAR SCHOOL RD CSO 37 19 85.7
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal RUNCORN ROAD CSO 22 10 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal THE BROW CSO 202UP 16 4 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal NORTHUMBERLAND RD/STRETFORD RD CSO 4 3 58.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal ELLESMERE ROAD CSO 481TI 6 1 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WATERLOO ROAD CSO (202ZW) 10 1 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal FIRST AVENUE CSO 1 0 99.8
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WHITBY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WARRINGTON/GRAPPENHALL 0 0 0
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal 3 PARK ROAD 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. This 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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