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River Croal polluted by sewage 437 times in 2025 - lasting 1,912 hours

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Totals for River Croal in 2025
14 Sites polluted by United Utilities
437 sewage dumps
1,912 h duration
That's 2.66 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Croal in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Croal HACKEN WORKS CSO 100 506 99.6
United Utilities River Croal SPA ROAD CSO 07017 45 441 99.6
United Utilities River Croal DRAGONS TOOTH CSO 55 334 100
United Utilities River Croal GINGER FOLD CSO BOL0144 86 297 99.5
United Utilities River Croal CAMMERCLOUGH ROAD CSO 93 271 99.9
United Utilities River Croal SPRINGFIELD TANK CSO 10 19 99.3
United Utilities River Croal HALL LANE 9 10 100
United Utilities River Croal STPETERS WAY/SPRINGFIELD IND ES CSO 18 10 100
United Utilities River Croal WALKER STREET CSO 7 9 100
United Utilities River Croal MANCHESTER RD/HOPE ST 3 4 81.7
United Utilities River Croal FERN STREET CSO (078J3) 8 3 100
United Utilities River Croal WHITE LION BROW CSO 1 2 99.8
United Utilities River Croal BRIDGEMAN PARK CSO 1 0 88.8
United Utilities River Croal WATER STREET CSO 07020 1 0 100
United Utilities River Croal EDITH STREET CSO 078NL 0 0 99.9
United Utilities River Croal KING STREET CSO 072BV 0 0 93.6

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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