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River Weaver polluted by sewage 541 times in 2025 - lasting 3,528 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Weaver BEAM BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 78 959 100
United Utilities River Weaver CREWE WWTW 63 664 100
United Utilities River Weaver MEADOWBANK/BRADFORD RD PS 69 656 99.9
United Utilities River Weaver NORTHWICH WWTW 39 291 100
United Utilities River Weaver NEWTOWN PUMPING STATION 33 197 100
United Utilities River Weaver WINSFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 44 196 99.9
United Utilities River Weaver BULKELEY STW 18 139 90
United Utilities River Weaver GREENBANK LANE CSO NORTHWICH 40 117 100
United Utilities River Weaver WEIR STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 24 98 95.9
United Utilities River Weaver WINSFORD HILL STREET 16 63 99.9
United Utilities River Weaver WEAVERHAM STW 32 43 99.9
United Utilities River Weaver WRENBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 12 28 99.8
United Utilities River Weaver WINNINGTON STREET CSO 472YM 12 27 99.5
United Utilities River Weaver WATERSIDE DRIVE CSO 472H4 23 23 99.1
United Utilities River Weaver OWLEY WOOD ROAD CSO 15 11 97.8
United Utilities River Weaver KEEPER'S LANE CSO (472BH) 10 6 96.5
United Utilities River Weaver DOCK ROAD SPS 3 2 100
United Utilities River Weaver SCHOOL LANE/LODGE LANE CSO 2 1 99.3
United Utilities River Weaver BRIDGE LANE QUAYSIDE CSO 7 1 100
United Utilities River Weaver BROOMHALL SPS 1 0 81.1
United Utilities River Weaver LONDON ROAD NANTWICH CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Weaver CHURCH ST 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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