Carlisle was polluted by sewage 1,847 times in 2023
lasting 8,112 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Carlisle in 2023
40 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water, United Utilities
1,847 sewage dumps
8,112 h duration
That's 11.27 months. On average 5.1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Carlisle 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 3 of the total 47 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Eden CARGO WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 217 2,214 100
United Utilities River Eden CARLISLE WWTW 116 1,011 87.2
United Utilities River Eden Estuary ROCKLIFFE WWTW ROCKC 99 959 100
United Utilities River Irthing GILSLAND WWTW 115 633 100
United Utilities Pow Maughan Beck COTEHILL WWTW 88 450 100
United Utilities River Irthing Via Sws NEWBY EAST WASTEWATER NETWORK PS 83 380 99.2
United Utilities Rockcliffe Beck ROCKCLIFFE PUMPING STATION 76 332 100
United Utilities River Esk LONGTOWN WWTW 86 315 100
United Utilities River Caldew BOUSTEADS GRASSINGS CSO 78 262 100
United Utilities River Eden NEAR TRINITY SCHOOL 78 249 100
United Utilities Milton Beck MILTON PUMPING STATION 41 174 99.7
United Utilities Willy Beck TALKIN WWTW 52 154 99.8
United Utilities River Eden CSO ADJACENT TO CARGO WWTW CARGO 78 143 100
United Utilities River Eden STANWIX/STAINTON CSO 35 105 100
United Utilities Castle Carrock Beck CASTLE CARROCK WWTW 85 92 98.9
United Utilities Cairn Beck HEADS NOOK WWTW 51 83 100
United Utilities Collar Beck SCOTBY CSO 26 76 100
United Utilities River Caldew LIME STREET SPS 33 58 100
United Utilities River Eden ETTERBY TERRACE CSO 43 56 100
United Utilities Dow Beck Culvert FINN AVENUE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 52 49 95.3
United Utilities Fairy Beck Culvert DALSTON ROAD PS 25 39 100
United Utilities River Caldew CROWN STREET (TOWN DYKE ORCHARD 37 36 96.4
Northumbrian Water Tarn Beck TINDALE STW 11 32 99.9
United Utilities River Petteril MELBOURNE PARK CSO 17 30 100
United Utilities River Eden WETHERAL AND GREAT CORBY WWTW WETHE 20 29 100
United Utilities Cairn Beck WARWICK BRIDGE PS 19 17 100
United Utilities Dow Beck Culvert STONEGARTH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 14 17 100
United Utilities Parham Beck INFIRMARY STREET CARLISLE CSO 21 17 100
United Utilities River Irthing IRTHINGTON PS 5 15 100
United Utilities Milton Beck KIRKHOUSE HALLBANKGT PS 10531 42 15 99.9
United Utilities River Petteril PETTERIL RAILWAY BRIDGE SSO 12 14 99.3
United Utilities Brampton Beck CSO UPSTREAM OF BRAMPTON WWTW 25 11 100
United Utilities River Eden LITTLE CORBY PS 10 7 100
United Utilities River Petteril GILFORD PARK CSO (10542) 10 6 58.6
United Utilities Castle Carrock Beck CASTLE CARROK CSO 11 4 100
United Utilities Milton Beck CUMCATCH / MILTON WEST PS 10 3 97.2
United Utilities River Petteril WARICK ROADWWNW PS 15 3 100
United Utilities River Caldew B&Q CSO (101C4) 7 2 98.1
United Utilities River Eden GREAT CORBY SYPHON CSO (10C88) 2 0 100
United Utilities Bye Gill HAYTON PUMPING STATION 2 0 100
United Utilities River Eden CROSBY ON EDEN PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities River Caldew RICKERBY CSO 0 0 97.1
United Utilities River Eden WARWICK ON EDEN PS 0 0 0
United Utilities Brampton Beck GELT ROAD CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities River Eden RICKERBY PARK CSO 0 0 0
United Utilities Trout Beck HEADS NOOK PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities Pow Beck Via Sws CAIRD AVENUE COMBINED SEWEROVERFLOW 0 0 100

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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