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Polluted by sewage 1,083 times in 2024 lasting 7,383 hours
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
So far this year (as of May 9, 2025, 7:45 AM) there has been 1,583 hours of sewage overflows
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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 Lancaster and Wyre, 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 Lancaster and Wyre 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 2 of the total 30 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | River Wyre | GARSTANG STW | 87 | 1,470 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Wyre Estuary | PREESALL WWTW PREES | 76 | 1,122 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Lune Estuary | LANCASTER WWTW LANCA | 52 | 757 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Cocker | COCKERHAM CSO | 129 | 683 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre Estuary | GARSTANG RD/GREAT ECCLESTON PS | 100 | 574 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre | SCORTON VILLAGE PUMPING STATION | 80 | 542 | 13.3 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre | KEPPLE LANE(OVERFLOW C GARSTANG)CSO | 84 | 450 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Little Calder | KENLIS STW | 80 | 439 | 96.3 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre | EAST OF COUNCIL OFFICE | 66 | 307 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | Tidal River Wyre | CATTERALL LANE WTP | 49 | 213 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Bacchus Brook | GARSTANG ROAD/BILSBORROW PS | 13 | 124 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lune Estuary | WILLOW LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 31 | 122 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | Lune Estuary | SCALE HALL PUMPING STATION | 32 | 107 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | River Calder | CALDER VALE PUMPING STATION | 42 | 90 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre | THE AVENUE (CHURCHTOWN) CSO | 15 | 90 | 95.3 |
| United Utilities | River Condor | RAILWAY FARM CSO 25051 | 24 | 59 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | Mill Race | LANCASTER BUS STATION CSO | 15 | 55 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Grange Pool | CEMETERY LANE PUMPING STATION | 20 | 49 | 56.9 |
| United Utilities | Mill Race | DAMSIDE SCREENING CSO 25076 | 27 | 48 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lune Est | BULK ROAD CSO 25097 | 11 | 27 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Lune Estuary | CABLE STREET CSO 251H9 | 11 | 17 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | River Lune Estuarine Waters | LUNE STREET PUMPING STATION 25030 | 7 | 11 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre Estuary | KNOTT END PUMPING STATION | 4 | 7 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lune Estuary | OWEN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 8 | 3 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Mill Race | ROSEMARY LANE CSO 252PG | 6 | 2 | 98.4 |
| United Utilities | River Lune Estuary | RAMPARTS CSO 25075 | 7 | 1 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Wyre Estuary | PILLING LANE PS | 6 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Cocker | RIBBLESDALE DRIVE PS | 1 | 0 | 92 |
| United Utilities | Cockers Dyke | REAR OF SUNNYSIDE TERRACE CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | River Lune Estuary | DAMSIDE | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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