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River Etherow polluted by sewage 554 times in 2025 - lasting 3,104 hours

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Totals for River Etherow in 2025
14 Sites polluted by United Utilities
554 sewage dumps
3,104 h duration
That's 4.31 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Etherow GLOSSOP STW (SPS) 102 1,411 100
United Utilities River Etherow LOW MARPLE STW 72 414 98.4
United Utilities River Etherow WOODLANDS CLOSE CSO (21117) 82 341 99
United Utilities River Etherow SPRING TAVERN CSO 218NH 68 283 99.9
United Utilities River Etherow CHARLESWORTH PUMPING STATION 13 127 99.9
United Utilities River Etherow WHOOLLEY LANE CSO 44024 56 127 100
United Utilities River Etherow TINTWISTLE STW 29 127 96.6
United Utilities River Etherow WOOLLEY BRIDGE ROAD CSO 43133 40 118 96.3
United Utilities River Etherow BANK LANE TINTWISTLE CSO 58 92 100
United Utilities River Etherow WELL ROW CSO 442XK 21 31 89
United Utilities River Etherow BROADBOTTOM PUMPING STATION 3 15 99.9
United Utilities River Etherow BANKBOTTOM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 8 100
United Utilities River Etherow COMPSTALL ROAD CSO 6 5 99.9
United Utilities River Etherow PETER STREET CSO 212LL 1 0 99.9
United Utilities River Etherow WATERSIDE MILL CSO 212ZY 0 0 99.9

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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