Lancaster and Fleetwood was polluted by sewage 992 times in 2023
lasting 5,590 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Lancaster and Fleetwood in 2023
25 Sites polluted by United Utilities
992 sewage dumps
5,590 h duration
That's 7.76 months. On average 2.7 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lancaster and Fleetwood 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 1 of the total 28 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Wyre Estuary PREESALL WWTW PREES 72 1,198 100
United Utilities River Cocker COCKERHAM CSO 154 919 96.4
United Utilities River Lune HALTON EAST STW 63 663 100
United Utilities Lune Estuary LANCASTER WWTW LANCA 46 603 100
United Utilities River Wyre SCORTON VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 82 572 100
United Utilities Lune Estuary CABLE STREET CSO 251H9 47 493 83.6
United Utilities Mill Race ROSEMARY LANE CSO 252PG 33 337 100
United Utilities River Hindburn WRAY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 181 165 100
United Utilities River Lune Estuary WILLOW LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 30 134 99.8
United Utilities Irish Sea CHATSWORTH AVENUE SPS 43 103 100
United Utilities Grange Pool CEMETERY LANE PUMPING STATION 38 96 89.1
United Utilities River Condor RAILWAY FARM CSO 25051 17 76 100
United Utilities Mill Race DAMSIDE SCREENING CSO 25076 28 55 100
United Utilities River Lune THURTELL COTTAGES CSO LAN0091 41 36 100
United Utilities Mill Race LANCASTER BUS STATION CSO 17 34 99.9
United Utilities Copse Brook Culvert DOCK ST OVERFLOW 39 29 97.2
United Utilities River Wyre Estuary KNOTT END PUMPING STATION 5 24 100
United Utilities River Lune Est BULK ROAD CSO 25097 10 18 100
United Utilities Bull Beck BULL BECK BROOKHOUSE CSO 5 7 100
United Utilities Copse Brook Culvert DOCK STREET CSO 52567 8 5 100
United Utilities Artle Beck, River Lune ARTLE BECK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 5 93.5
United Utilities River Wyre Estuary PILLING LANE PS 11 3 94.5
United Utilities Artle Beck ARTLEBECK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 2 100
United Utilities Unnamed Dyke ROSSALL SCHOOL PUMPING STATION 6 1 100
United Utilities River Cocker RIBBLESDALE DRIVE PS 1 0 69.9
United Utilities River Lune Estuary DAMSIDE 0 0 0
United Utilities Cockers Dyke REAR OF SUNNYSIDE TERRACE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Wenning LOW BENTHAM WWTW (LOWBE) 0 0 90.4

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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