Barrow and Furness was polluted by sewage 2,450 times in 2024
lasting 24,636 hours - that's 2.85 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Barrow and Furness in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 2,851 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.33 years!

Totals for Barrow and Furness in 2024

41 Sites polluted by United Utilities

2,450 sewage dumps
24,636 h duration

That's 2.85 years! On average 6.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Barrow and Furness

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Barrow and Furness, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barrow and Furness in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 2 of the total 45 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Gleaston Beck	GLEASTON CASTLE CSO	191	4,517	99.4
United Utilities	Deep Meadows Beck	NEWBIGGIN (LEVEN) WWTW NEWBG	216	3,863	69.3
United Utilities	Blea Beck	ASKHAM-IN-FURNESS WWTW ASKAM	111	1,782	100
United Utilities	River Crake	SPARK BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	123	1,675	100
United Utilities	Duddon Estuary	MILLOM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	117	1,526	100
United Utilities	Walney Channel	BARROW-IN-FURNESS WWTW	154	1,444	100
United Utilities	Soutergate Beck	SOUTERGATE WWTW SOUTE SOUTE	92	1,359	92.3
United Utilities	Morecambe Bay Esturiane Waters	BAYCLIFF PUMPING STATION 39051	88	1,338	99.9
United Utilities	River Leven	GREENODD PUMPING STATION	102	1,067	100
United Utilities	River Esk	RAVENGLASS STW	49	697	100
United Utilities	Millbeck	ABBEY RD/HOLLOW LANE CSO	171	681	97.6
United Utilities	Irish Sea	HYCEMOOR WWTW BOTHH	53	548	100
United Utilities	River Crake	CRAKE VALLEY WWTW	77	509	100
United Utilities	Leven Estuary	COOPER LANE SPS	31	468	100
United Utilities	Walney Channel	FERRY PUMPING STATION SITE ID 04528	53	449	100
United Utilities	Haverigg Pool	HAVERIGG PUMPING STATION	46	414	100
United Utilities	Walney Channel	PALACE NOOK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	59	360	100
United Utilities	Morecambe Bay	RAMPSIDE PUMPING STATION	66	346	100
United Utilities	Duddon Estuary	GREETY GATE PUMPING STATION	53	267	98.3
United Utilities	Piel Channel	ROA ISLAND PUMPING STATION	57	161	100
United Utilities	Soutergate Beck	SOUTERGATE VILLAGE PUMPING STATION	25	151	92.2
United Utilities	Duddon Estuary	FOXFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	18	150	99.6
United Utilities	Poaka Beck	DALTON SCREENS CSO	63	142	99.8
United Utilities	River Annas, Syke Beck	BOOTLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	30	110	100
United Utilities	Walney Channel	GRAVING DOCK PUMPING STATION	111	102	100
United Utilities	Clarkes Beck	LINDAL PUMPING STATION 04509	39	100	98
United Utilities	Ormsgill Reservoir	ROMNEY ROAD/TITCHFIELD STREET CSO	12	96	90.2
United Utilities	Mill Beck/ Cavendish Dock	FREDERICK ST PS	20	63	100
United Utilities	Town Beck	TOWN BECK CSO 39065	28	52	100
United Utilities	Duddon Estuary	KING STREET PUMPING STATION	27	46	100
United Utilities	Carter Pool	PRIORY ROAD CSO 392MO	18	39	99.2
United Utilities	Walney Channel	HARBOUR YARD PUMPING STATION	75	36	100
United Utilities	Sarah Beck	SOUTH EAST OF NEWTON SSO	26	29	100
United Utilities	Dragley Beck	OAKWOOD DRIVE CROFTLANDS CSO	3	13	100
United Utilities	Millbeck	31 ABBOTSMEAD APPROACH CSO	23	11	99.3
United Utilities	Ormsgill Reservoir	OXFORD STREET/AINSLIE STREET CSO	8	4	88.3
United Utilities	Bardsea Beck	BARDSEA SPS(TOILET BLOCK)	1	2	100
United Utilities	Ulverston Channel/ Carter Pool	ULVERSTON WWTW	9	1	100
United Utilities	Blea Beck	K SHOES CSO 042B6	3	0	99.3
United Utilities	Ormsgill Reservoir	SCHNEIDER ROAD CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Kirby Pool	MARSHSIDE	1	0	100
United Utilities	Ormsgill Res	AINSLIE STREET/NEWPORT ST CSO 041A7	0	0	99.1
United Utilities	Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge	188 RATING LANE CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Mill Beck	THORNCLIFFE RD/CLIFF LN CSO	0	0	32.1
United Utilities	Mill Beck	27/29 ABBOTSMEAD CSO	0	0	0

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. This 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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