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Lancaster and Wyre was polluted by sewage 1,308 times in 2023
lasting 11,505 hours - that's 1.33 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Lancaster and Wyre in 2023

28 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,308 sewage dumps
11,505 h duration

That's 1.33 years! On average 3.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Lancaster and Wyre

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lancaster and Wyre 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 30 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	River Wyre	GARSTANG STW	92	1,705	99.9
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	RAMPARTS CSO 25075	62	1,478	100
United Utilities	Wyre Estuary	PREESALL WWTW PREES	72	1,198	100
United Utilities	River Cocker	COCKERHAM CSO	154	919	96.4
United Utilities	Little Calder	KENLIS STW	103	727	97.3
United Utilities	River Wyer Estuary	GARSTANG RD/GREAT ECCLESTON PS	116	655	100
United Utilities	Lune Estuary	LANCASTER WWTW LANCA	46	603	100
United Utilities	River Lune Estuarine Waters	LUNE STREET PUMPING STATION 25030	30	595	65.9
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	River Wyre	KEPPLE LANE(OVERFLOW C GARSTANG)CSO	91	449	96.4
United Utilities	Lune Estuary	SCALE HALL PUMPING STATION	41	400	38.7
United Utilities	Mill Race	ROSEMARY LANE CSO 252PG	33	337	100
United Utilities	River Wyre	EAST OF COUNCIL OFFICE	71	305	78.9
United Utilities	Bacchus Brook	GARSTANG ROAD/BILSBORROW PS	20	183	100
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	OWEN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	17	169	52.8
United Utilities	Tidal River Wyre	CATTERALL LANE WTP	50	168	100
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	WILLOW LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	30	134	99.8
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	River Wyre	THE AVENUE (CHURCHTOWN) CSO	10	72	100
United Utilities	Mill Race	DAMSIDE SCREENING CSO 25076	28	55	100
United Utilities	Mill Race	LANCASTER BUS STATION CSO	17	34	99.9
United Utilities	River Wyre Estuary	KNOTT END PUMPING STATION	5	24	100
United Utilities	River Calder	CALDER VALE PUMPING STATION	14	23	100
United Utilities	River Lune Est	BULK ROAD CSO 25097	10	18	100
United Utilities	River Wyre Estuary	PILLING LANE PS	11	3	94.5
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

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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