Barrow and Furness was polluted by sewage 2,498 times in 2023
lasting 26,215 hours - that's 3.03 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Barrow and Furness in 2023
37 Sites polluted by United Utilities
2,498 sewage dumps
26,215 h duration
That's 3.03 years! On average 6.8 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barrow and Furness in 2023. 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 10 of the total 48 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 10 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Gleaston Beck GLEASTON CASTLE CSO 173 4,066 100
United Utilities Deep Meadows Beck NEWBIGGIN (LEVEN) WWTW NEWBG 235 3,938 100
United Utilities Blea Beck ASKHAM-IN-FURNESS WWTW ASKAM 173 3,661 100
United Utilities River Crake SPARK BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 153 2,751 100
United Utilities Soutergate Beck SOUTERGATE WWTW SOUTE SOUTE 110 1,798 100
United Utilities Morecambe Bay Esturiane Waters BAYCLIFF PUMPING STATION 39051 101 1,712 99.9
United Utilities Walney Channel BARROW-IN-FURNESS WWTW 110 1,686 84.5
United Utilities River Leven GREENODD PUMPING STATION 88 1,095 100
United Utilities Walney Channel PALACE NOOK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 90 900 94.2
United Utilities Millbeck ABBEY RD/HOLLOW LANE CSO 163 780 66.6
United Utilities Walney Channel FERRY PUMPING STATION SITE ID 04528 70 542 100
United Utilities Leven Estuary COOPER LANE SPS 31 471 99.7
United Utilities Duddon Estuary GREETY GATE PUMPING STATION 46 456 94.9
United Utilities Morecambe Bay RAMPSIDE PUMPING STATION 80 329 100
United Utilities Duddon Estuary FOXFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 27 298 99.9
United Utilities Soutergate Beck SOUTERGATE VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 17 238 97.3
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir SCHNEIDER ROAD CSO 22 211 98.4
United Utilities River Crake CRAKE VALLEY WWTW 71 192 98.3
United Utilities Mill Beck/ Cavendish Dock FREDERICK ST PS 25 168 100
United Utilities Poaka Beck DALTON SCREENS CSO 77 152 93.2
United Utilities Walney Channel GRAVING DOCK PUMPING STATION 143 135 100
United Utilities Clarkes Beck LINDAL PUMPING STATION 04509 82 117 100
United Utilities Piel Channel ROA ISLAND PUMPING STATION 53 105 100
United Utilities Town Beck TOWN BECK CSO 39065 47 95 100
United Utilities Carter Pool PRIORY ROAD CSO 392MO 44 87 100
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir ROMNEY ROAD/TITCHFIELD STREET CSO 14 69 95.8
United Utilities Sarah Beck SOUTH EAST OF NEWTON SSO 50 50 100
United Utilities Walney Channel HARBOUR YARD PUMPING STATION 74 37 99.6
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir OXFORD STREET/AINSLIE STREET CSO 11 25 100
United Utilities Millbeck 31 ABBOTSMEAD APPROACH CSO 26 13 100
United Utilities Ormsgill Res AINSLIE ST/HARROGATE ST 38 10 100
United Utilities Ulverston Channel/ Carter Pool ULVERSTON WWTW 22 4 100
United Utilities Walney Channel BIGGAR VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 2 2 72.2
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir AINSLIE ST OXFORD ST CSO 041A9 20 2 100
United Utilities Bardsea Beck BARDSEA SPS(TOILET BLOCK) 3 1 100
United Utilities Blea Beck K SHOES CSO 042B6 5 1 100
United Utilities Ormsgill Res AINSLIE STREET/NEWPORT ST CSO 041A7 2 0 100
United Utilities Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge 188 RATING LANE CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Kirby Pool MARSHSIDE 0 0 0
United Utilities Dragley Beck OAKWOOD DRIVE CROFTLANDS CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Mill Beck THORNCLIFFE RD/CLIFF LN CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Roose Brook/Millbeck DANE AVENUE/WHEATCLOSE ROAD CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Roose Brook/Millbeck HAWCOAT LANE/HARTLAND ROAD CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Roose Brook/Millbeck FLASS LANE AT BRIDGEGATE CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Roose Brook/Millbeck HAWCOAT LANE/THORNCLIFFE ROAD CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge HOLLOW LANE/OLD HARREL LANE CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Roose Bridge/Millbeck RATING LANE/MEADOWLANDS AVENUE CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Roosebridge/Millbeck BRIDGEGATE AVENUE MANHOLE 5800 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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