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Morecambe and Lunesdale was polluted by sewage 1,775 times in 2023
lasting 13,641 hours - that's 1.58 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Morecambe and Lunesdale in 2023

41 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,775 sewage dumps
13,641 h duration

That's 1.58 years! On average 4.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Morecambe and Lunesdale

Waterways in Morecambe and Lunesdale

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Morecambe and Lunesdale 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 46 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 Keer	OVER KELLET WWTW	156	2,700	100
United Utilities	River Bela	MILNTHORPE SEWAGE PS MLNTH	86	1,744	98.8
United Utilities	River Lune	CATON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	96	1,554	57.4
United Utilities	River Rawthey	SEDBERGH STW	64	1,491	100
United Utilities	River Keer	GARDNER ROAD PUMPING STATION	63	1,316	100
United Utilities	Nether Beck, River Keer	NETHER KELLET WTW NETHK	83	1,227	100
United Utilities	River Lune	HALTON EAST STW	63	663	100
United Utilities	Holme Beck	DUKE STREET	90	511	96.4
United Utilities	River Lune	KIRKBY LONSDALE STW	121	368	100
United Utilities	Kent Estuary	ASH MEADOW PUMPING STATION	27	242	100
United Utilities	Ewan Mill Beck	HOLME STATION CSO 391HY LAK0046	27	224	100
United Utilities	River Dee	DENT STW	78	198	100
United Utilities	River Lune	OVERTON GARDEN TERRACE PS	8	169	100
United Utilities	River Hindburn	WRAY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	181	165	100
United Utilities	River Lune	HALTON EAST SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	88	148	100
United Utilities	Morecambe Bay Estuarine Wtrs	JUNC PROMENADE SILVERDALE RD CSO	42	147	100
United Utilities	Hatlex Beck	HEST BANK PUMPING STATION	20	131	100
United Utilities	Mill Dam	ST NICHOLAS LANE PUMPING STATION	49	82	100
United Utilities	River Keer	HAGG LANE MIDLAND TERRACE PS	34	80	100
United Utilities	River Lune	HALTON WEST PUMPING STATION HLTWE	51	62	100
United Utilities	Lades Pool Estuarine Waters	MIDDLETON OVERTON WWTW MIDDL	6	61	100
United Utilities	River Kent	SEDGWICK PUMPING STATION	38	51	92.3
United Utilities	Black Dike, Keer Estuary	LARBURNUM PARK PUMPING STATION	21	40	94.6
United Utilities	River Lune	THURTELL COTTAGES CSO LAN0091	41	36	100
United Utilities	River Lune	CASTERTON WWTW	14	34	100
United Utilities	Morecambe Bay	SCHOLA GREEN LANE PS	13	33	100
United Utilities	River Kent Estuary, Morecambe Bay	ARNSIDE PROMENADE PUMPING STATION	33	24	100
United Utilities	Chapel Pool Lune Estuary	BAZIL LANE PUMPING STATION	41	24	100
United Utilities	Black Dyke	CRAG BANK PUMPING STATION	5	23	97.8
United Utilities	Sealford Beck	HUTTON ROOF STW	8	15	100
United Utilities	River Rawthey	MORTAR PITS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	26	14	100
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	OXCLIFFE RD PS NO 1 & EO TO OVERTON	25	10	100
United Utilities	River Wenning	HORNBY STW	29	10	100
United Utilities	Bull Beck	BULL BECK BROOKHOUSE CSO	5	7	100
United Utilities	Artle Beck, River Lune	ARTLE BECK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	6	5	93.5
United Utilities	Middle Brook	HEATON BRIDGE CSO BOLTON	21	4	100
United Utilities	River Bela	SANDSIDE PUMPING STATION	2	4	100
United Utilities	Artle Beck	ARTLEBECK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	9	2	100
United Utilities	Lades Pool	MIDDLE POOL PS MIDDP LAN0099	2	1	97.8
United Utilities	Holme Beck Via Sws	HOLME WWTW	2	1	100
United Utilities	Morecambe Bay	HEYSHAM VILLAGE PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
United Utilities	River Rawthey	SETTLEBECK SEDBERGH CSO	0	0	96.6
United Utilities	Lades Pool, River Lune	OVERTON PEDDAR-FAR PS	0	0	0
United Utilities	Bessy Brook	LOSTOCK JUNCTION LANE CSO	0	0	100
United Utilities	River Wenning	LOW BENTHAM WWTW (LOWBE)	0	0	90.4
United Utilities	Clvrt Back Lane / Kellet Rd	FAIRFIELD RD RUSSELL RD CSO 25026	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

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