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Polluted by sewage 2,573 times in 2024 lasting 15,048 hours - That's 1.74 years!
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of May 9, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 2,022 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.23 years!
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Whitehaven and Workington, 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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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Whitehaven and Workington 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 1 of the total 58 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Near Stock Beck | DEAN VILLAGE WW PUMPING STATION | 137 | 1,608 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | Dubbs Gutter | EAGLESFIELD WWTW EAGLE | 139 | 1,571 | 96.4 |
| United Utilities | River Marron | LITTLE CLIFTON STW | 110 | 1,309 | 97.1 |
| United Utilities | River Keekle | KEEKLE PUMPING STATION | 135 | 1,067 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | WORKINGTON WWTW | 152 | 1,001 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Keekle | CLEATOR WWTW | 71 | 886 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Dyan Beck | PICA STW | 56 | 695 | 46.6 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | SEASCALE WWTW | 62 | 628 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Far Stock Beck | DEANSCALES PS & CSO | 108 | 625 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Calder | CALDER BRIDGE WWTW | 51 | 597 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | BRAYSTONES WWTW | 163 | 511 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | ST BEES PUMPING STATION | 47 | 461 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Distington Beck | HAYES CASTLE FARM CSO (02628) | 97 | 437 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | Ling Beck | LOWCA LANE HAZEL GROVE CSO | 82 | 383 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Keekle | BLIND LANE CSO 02627 | 50 | 351 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Ehen | BROOKSIDE CSO | 80 | 343 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Keekle | MOOR ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 88 | 287 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | River Derwent | NORTHSIDE CSO 021QB | 80 | 263 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | WHITEHAVEN WWTW | 74 | 257 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Colliergate Beck | ROWRAH PUMPING STATION | 28 | 236 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Lowca Beck | LOWCA BROW (PARTON) CSO | 60 | 195 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Ehen | PICKET HOW FARM SSO | 18 | 143 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Derwent Estuary | JOHN PIER SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 29 | 127 | 99.1 |
| Wessex Water | River Stour | HAYES LANE PUMPING STATION | 28 | 112 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Stan Beck | HIGH STREET WORKINGTON CSO | 68 | 109 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Dub Beck | ARLECDON STW | 24 | 98 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Black Beck | PARDSHAW STW | 54 | 89 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Eller Gill | ARLECDON PARKS ROAD CSO | 38 | 80 | 99 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | MEADOW RD CSO 023A8 | 24 | 77 | 96.1 |
| United Utilities | River Marron | GLEN HOUSE CSO | 47 | 76 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | River Derwent | CAMERTON WW PUMPING STATION | 26 | 73 | 88.2 |
| United Utilities | Snebra Beck | WINSTON DRIVE HENSINGHAM CSO 02632 | 30 | 62 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Hawes Gill | KIRKLAND STW | 55 | 50 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Norbeck | NORBECK PARK A CSO (SITE 023A9) | 56 | 46 | 96.6 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | WEST STRAND PUMPING STATION | 45 | 44 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | ESK AVENUE MIREHOUSE CSO | 17 | 41 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | River Marron | BRANTHWAITE PUMPING STATION | 12 | 20 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Clvrt Pow Beck Via Sws | LATTRIGG RD CSO 022CJ | 19 | 16 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | GRISEDALE CLOSE CSO | 23 | 14 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Blackwood Beck | MORESBY PARKS PS | 7 | 14 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Hare Beck | GOSFORTH WWTW | 3 | 7 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | PARTON N.F. SHORE PUMPING STATION | 40 | 5 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre | MELBOURNE TERRACE CSO | 21 | 4 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | CROASDALE AVENUE CSO | 4 | 3 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | River Ehen | KILN BROW PUMPING STATION | 5 | 1 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Nor Beck | REAR GARDEN OF 16 CROSSINGS CLOSE | 1 | 1 | 86.9 |
| United Utilities | Winder Beck | 28/29 ARLECDON PARKS ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Lowca Beck | ULLGILL MORESBY (MH65) CSO | 2 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | POW BRIDGE/STATION ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Townsend Beck | THE CSO AT MAIN STREET | 1 | 0 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Pow Beck | SNEBRA WHITEHAVEN CSO 023B2 | 1 | 0 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Culverted Sec Of Snebra Beck | RIBTON MOORSIDE CSO | 1 | 0 | 93.7 |
| United Utilities | River Ehen | KILN BROW COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 1 | 0 | 99 |
| United Utilities | Needless Beck | LINETHWAITE PUMPING STATION | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Derwent | CAMERTON WWTW CAMER | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Distington Beck | COMMON END COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 0 | 0 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Winder Beck | ARLECDON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Distington Beck | MILL COTTAGES CSO | 0 | 0 | 88.3 |
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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