Manchester Ship Canal polluted by sewage 986 times in 2024 - lasting 3,414 hours

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Totals for Manchester Ship Canal in 2024
24 Sites polluted by United Utilities
986 sewage dumps
3,414 h duration
That's 4.74 months. On average 2.7 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Manchester Ship Canal in 2024. 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 LOCK LANE PARTINGTON CSO 175 965 95.6
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal TOWN PUMPING STATION 62 455 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal SALFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 100 305 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal POWERHOUSE ROAD PUMPING STATION 64 278 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DAVYHULME WWTW 75 258 95
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 33 251 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal EXPRESSWAY 8 RUNCORN 78 183 98.6
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WALTON PS 22 138 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal BUFFALO COURT DETENTION TANK 20 115 100
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal PENN LANE WESTON POINT PR CSO 202LE 65 113 99.1
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal HALTON BROW CSO 203EF 79 105 98.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal HARDWICK ROADCSO 24 73 99.1
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal CLOWES ST/DANIEL ADAMSON ROAD CSO 47 54 99.3
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal PARKGATE FARM (WARBURTON) CSO 28 28 98.5
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal KNUTSFORD RD/GRAMMAR SCHOOL RD CSO 39 28 99.5
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal FAIRHILLS ROAD CSO (37002) 15 15 92.1
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal RUNCORN ROAD CSO 16 11 99.2
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal LORDS STREET/LIVERPOOL ROAD CSO 7 9 99
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal THE BROW CSO 202UP 12 6 99
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal ELLESMERE ROAD CSO 481TI 7 5 98.8
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal NORTHUMBERLAND RD/STRETFORD RD CSO 7 4 99.2
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WATERLOO ROAD CSO (202ZW) 9 1 96.2
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WHITBY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal FIRST AVENUE CSO 1 0 99.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal 3 PARK ROAD CSO 0 0 99.2
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal DUMPLINGTON CIRCLE 0 0 84.4
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal URMSTON SSO 0 0 75.9
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal WARRINGTON/GRAPPENHALL 0 0 98.8

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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