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Lancaster and Wyre

Polluted by sewage 874 times in 2025 lasting 4,954 hours

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Live data for Lancaster and Wyre in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,382 hours of sewage overflows, from 63 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Lancaster and Wyre in 2025

29 Sites polluted by United Utilities
874 sewage dumps
4,954 hours duration
That's 6.88 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lancaster and Wyre 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 Wyre GARSTANG STW 53 732 99.8
United Utilities River Cocker COCKERHAM CSO 121 596 97.9
United Utilities River Wyre SCORTON VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 71 447 99.8
United Utilities River Wyre Estuary GARSTANG RD/GREAT ECCLESTON PS 73 446 99.7
United Utilities Little Calder KENLIS STW 64 379 96.9
United Utilities River Wyre KEPPLE LANE(OVERFLOW C GARSTANG)CSO 69 358 87.2
United Utilities Wyre Estuary PREESALL WWTW PREES 34 278 100
United Utilities River Wyre EAST OF COUNCIL OFFICE 64 276 99.9
United Utilities Lune Estuary LANCASTER WWTW LANCA 21 236 94.6
United Utilities Grange Pool CEMETERY LANE PUMPING STATION 34 193 72.7
United Utilities River Lune Estuary WILLOW LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 30 181 99.9
United Utilities River Wyre A6 JUNCTION OF CHURCHTOWN CSO 40 169 99.8
United Utilities River Calder CALDER VALE PUMPING STATION 31 121 99.5
United Utilities Mill Race DAMSIDE SCREENING CSO 25076 18 67 100
United Utilities River Lune Est BULK ROAD CSO 25097 17 66 71.1
United Utilities River Lune Estuary DAMSIDE 17 66 99.8
United Utilities Mill Race LANCASTER BUS STATION CSO 11 60 99.8
United Utilities Lune Estuary SCALE HALL PUMPING STATION 17 57 99.8
United Utilities River Condor RAILWAY FARM CSO 25051 23 56 75.4
United Utilities River Wyre THE AVENUE (CHURCHTOWN) CSO 10 47 94.9
United Utilities Bacchus Brook GARSTANG ROAD/BILSBORROW PS 4 46 100
United Utilities Lune Estuary CABLE STREET CSO 251H9 15 23 96.3
United Utilities River Wyre Estuary KNOTT END PUMPING STATION 4 18 100
United Utilities River Lune Estuary OWEN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 12 100
United Utilities River Lune Estuary RAMPARTS CSO 25075 5 4 100
United Utilities River Wyre Estuary PILLING LANE PS 6 3 100
United Utilities Mill Race ROSEMARY LANE CSO 252PG 8 2 76.2
United Utilities River Cocker RIBBLESDALE DRIVE PS 3 0 81.2
United Utilities River Lune Estuarine Waters LUNE STREET PUMPING STATION 25030 2 0 99.2
United Utilities Cockers Dyke REAR OF SUNNYSIDE TERRACE CSO 0 0 99.3

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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