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Barrow and Furness was polluted by sewage 2,789 times in 2023
lasting 29,225 hours - that's 3.38 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Barrow and Furness in 2023

43 Sites polluted by United Utilities

2,789 sewage dumps
29,225 h duration

That's 3.38 years! On average 7.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Barrow and Furness

Waterways in Barrow and Furness

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 54 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	Duddon Estuary	MILLOM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	96	1,373	99.9
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	Haverigg Pool	HAVERIGG PUMPING STATION	63	582	100
United Utilities	Walney Channel	FERRY PUMPING STATION SITE ID 04528	70	542	100
United Utilities	River Esk	RAVENGLASS STW	38	481	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	Irish Sea	HYCEMOOR WWTW BOTHH	45	410	99.9
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	River Annas, Syke Beck	BOOTLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	30	150	99.9
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	Duddon Estuary	KING STREET PUMPING STATION	19	12	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	Kirby Pool	MARSHSIDE	0	0	0
United Utilities	Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge	HOLLOW LANE/OLD HARREL LANE CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Dragley Beck	OAKWOOD DRIVE CROFTLANDS CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	Roose Brook/Millbeck	HAWCOAT LANE/THORNCLIFFE ROAD CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Roose Brook/Millbeck	HAWCOAT LANE/HARTLAND ROAD CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Mill Beck	THORNCLIFFE RD/CLIFF LN CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Roose Brook/Millbeck	FLASS LANE AT BRIDGEGATE CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge	188 RATING LANE CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Roose Bridge/Millbeck	RATING LANE/MEADOWLANDS AVENUE CSO	0	0	0
United Utilities	Roose Brook/Millbeck	DANE AVENUE/WHEATCLOSE ROAD 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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