{"id":3386,"date":"2026-06-12T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:26:22","slug":"sewage-sicknesses-on-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"Sewage sicknesses on Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3392\" src=\"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1-768x1121.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1-1052x1536.jpg 1052w, https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1-570x832.jpg 570w, https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-4-1.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>According to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/top-of-the-poops.org\/waterway\/united-utilities\/river-weaver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top of the Poops<\/a>, the\u00a0River Weaver was polluted by sewage 541 times in 2025, lasting 3,528 hours.\u00a0Swimmers and those not washing after touching river water have become sick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Key high\u2011impact sites in 2025 included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beam Bridge Pumping Station<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 78 spills, 959 hours<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crewe WwTW<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 63 spills, 664 hours<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meadowbank\/Bradford Road PS<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 69 spills, 656 hours<\/li>\n<li><strong>Northwich WwTW<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 39 spills, 291 hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3393 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Weaver-swimming-1.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>United Utilities say they will invest more than \u00a320m across Mid Cheshire in the next five years as part of a wider investment to reduce storm overfull spills.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also teamed up with a Rotary Club in Winnington, presenting them with water testing kits to support collaborative working to improve water quality. However, it is understood that these are primarily to test the water for Nitrates, Phosphates, Ammonia, turbidity and temperature, rather than sewage.<\/p>\n<p>The River Weaver Navigation Society will continue to monitor investment and water quality closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the website Top of the Poops, the\u00a0River Weaver was polluted by sewage 541 times in 2025, lasting 3,528 hours.\u00a0Swimmers and those not washing after touching river water have become sick. Key high\u2011impact sites in 2025 included: Beam Bridge Pumping Station\u00a0\u2014 78 spills, 959 hours Crewe WwTW\u00a0\u2014 63 spills, 664 hours Meadowbank\/Bradford Road PS\u00a0\u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorised","czr-hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sewage sicknesses on Weaver &#8226; River Weaver Navigation Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0River Weaver was polluted by sewage 541 times in 2025\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/?p=3386\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sewage sicknesses on Weaver &#8226; 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