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Wince Brook polluted by sewage 207 times in 2025 - lasting 768 hours

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Totals for Wince Brook in 2025
7 Sites polluted by United Utilities
207 sewage dumps
768 h duration
That's 4.57 weeks. 4 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Wince Brook OLDHAM WWTW 38 368 99.8
United Utilities Wince Brook S. CHADDERTON/ 54 209 95.7
United Utilities Wince Brook FOXDENTON LANE CSO 52 80 97
United Utilities Wince Brook WHITLEY DRIVE CSO 25 43 86.4
United Utilities Wince Brook MOSTON RD/ CHADDERTON LOW LEVEL PS 13 35 96.8
United Utilities Wince Brook GREENGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 14 16 99.8
United Utilities Wince Brook THE CAUSEWAY CHADDERTON WWNPS 11 14 98.3

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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