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Carlisle

Polluted by sewage 1,310 times in 2025 lasting 4,589 hours

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Live data for Carlisle in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,221 hours of sewage overflows, from 108 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Carlisle in 2025

40 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water United Utilities
1,310 sewage dumps
4,589 hours duration
That's 6.37 months. On average 3.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Carlisle in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Esk LONGTOWN WWTW 113 635 89.05
United Utilities River Eden Estuary ROCKLIFFE WWTW ROCKC 80 577 100
United Utilities River Irthing GILSLAND WWTW 80 463 99.8
United Utilities River Eden CARLISLE WWTW 59 359 100
United Utilities Pow Maughan Beck COTEHILL WWTW 64 295 91.8
United Utilities Rockcliffe Beck ROCKCLIFFE PUMPING STATION 73 242 99.9
United Utilities River Eden NEAR TRINITY SCHOOL 65 215 100
United Utilities River Caldew BOUSTEADS GRASSINGS CSO 59 214 98.8
United Utilities River Irthing Via Sws NEWBY EAST WASTEWATER NETWORK PS 68 191 98.8
United Utilities Milton Beck MILTON PUMPING STATION 39 163 99.9
United Utilities Castle Carrock Beck CASTLE CARROCK WWTW 70 125 99.8
United Utilities Collar Beck SCOTBY CSO 26 121 100
United Utilities River Irthing IRTHINGTON PS 22 113 99.9
United Utilities River Eden CSO ADJACENT TO CARGO WWTW CARGO 64 105 99
Northumbrian Water Tarn Beck TINDALE STW 19 102 99.7
United Utilities River Eden STANWIX/STAINTON CSO 21 86 99.7
United Utilities Willy Beck TALKIN WWTW 45 81 99.7
United Utilities River Eden ETTERBY TERRACE CSO 30 70 99.9
United Utilities River Eden WETHERAL AND GREAT CORBY WWTW WETHE 19 62 100
United Utilities Brampton Beck CSO UPSTREAM OF BRAMPTON WWTW 33 52 99.8
United Utilities Cairn Beck WARWICK BRIDGE PS 28 50 99.9
United Utilities Cairn Beck HEADS NOOK WWTW 22 49 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril PETTERIL RAILWAY BRIDGE SSO 10 38 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril MELBOURNE PARK CSO 16 36 97.3
United Utilities River Caldew CROWN STREET (TOWN DYKE ORCHARD 28 28 96.7
United Utilities Parham Beck INFIRMARY STREET CARLISLE CSO 19 23 100
United Utilities Milton Beck KIRKHOUSE HALLBANKGT PS 10531 43 20 99.9
United Utilities River Petteril GILFORD PARK CSO (10542) 13 12 100
United Utilities River Eden LITTLE CORBY PS 11 11 99.9
United Utilities River Petteril WARICK ROADWWNW PS 20 10 100
United Utilities Dow Beck Culvert FINN AVENUE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 9 100
United Utilities River Caldew B&Q CSO (101C4) 8 5 94
United Utilities Laversdale Beck LAVERSDALE STW 9 2 98.3
United Utilities River Eden GREAT CORBY SYPHON CSO (10C88) 6 1 100
United Utilities River Caldew RICKERBY CSO 4 1 100
United Utilities Castle Carrock Beck CASTLE CARROK CSO 7 1 100
United Utilities Milton Beck CUMCATCH / MILTON WEST PS 2 0 100
United Utilities River Caldew LIME STREET SPS 1 0 100
United Utilities Bye Gill HAYTON PUMPING STATION 6 0 100
United Utilities River Eden RICKERBY PARK CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Pow Beck Via Sws CAIRD AVENUE COMBINED SEWEROVERFLOW 0 0 94
United Utilities River Eden CARGO WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 93.7
United Utilities River Eden CROSBY ON EDEN PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Brampton Beck GELT ROAD CSO 0 0 97.5
United Utilities Trout Beck HEADS NOOK PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities Dow Beck Culvert STONEGARTH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 93.3
United Utilities River Eden WARWICK ON EDEN PS 0 0 80.6

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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