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Morecambe and Lunesdale

Polluted by sewage 1,546 times in 2025 lasting 9,656 hours - That's 1.12 years!

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Live data for Morecambe and Lunesdale in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 21:46) there has been 2,457 hours of sewage overflows, from 95 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Morecambe and Lunesdale in 2025

39 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,546 sewage dumps
9,656 hours duration
That's 1.12 years. On average 4.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Morecambe and Lunesdale 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 Keer OVER KELLET WWTW 134 2,401 99.9
United Utilities Nether Beck, River Keer NETHER KELLET WTW NETHK 102 1,627 100
United Utilities River Lune CATON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 83 838 100
United Utilities Lades Pool, River Lune OVERTON PEDDAR-FAR PS 42 595 100
United Utilities River Lune KIRKBY LONSDALE STW 128 437 99.9
United Utilities River Rawthey SEDBERGH STW 51 431 99.7
United Utilities River Hindburn WRAY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 90 368 99.7
United Utilities River Lune HALTON EAST STW 40 326 100
United Utilities River Dee DENT STW 126 318 99.1
United Utilities Sealford Beck HUTTON ROOF STW 63 295 99.9
United Utilities Holme Beck Via Sws HOLME WWTW 34 253 98.7
United Utilities Kent Estuary ASH MEADOW PUMPING STATION 25 198 100
United Utilities Ewan Mill Beck HOLME STATION CSO 391HY LAK0046 29 192 98.8
United Utilities Morecambe Bay Estuarine Wtrs JUNC PROMENADE SILVERDALE RD CSO 39 190 99.8
United Utilities River Kent Estuary, Morecambe Bay ARNSIDE PROMENADE PUMPING STATION 51 178 100
United Utilities River Bela MILNTHORPE SEWAGE PS MLNTH 29 178 99.9
United Utilities River Lune HALTON EAST SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 87 176 100
United Utilities River Wenning LOW BENTHAM WWTW (LOWBE) 42 129 99.9
United Utilities Mill Dam ST NICHOLAS LANE PUMPING STATION 56 98 100
United Utilities River Lune HALTON WEST PUMPING STATION HLTWE 46 88 100
United Utilities River Lune THURTELL COTTAGES CSO LAN0091 35 65 82.6
United Utilities River Kent SEDGWICK PUMPING STATION 41 54 100
United Utilities Black Dike, Keer Estuary LARBURNUM PARK PUMPING STATION 21 42 100
United Utilities Morecambe Bay SCHOLA GREEN LANE PS 14 36 89.3
United Utilities Bull Beck BULL BECK BROOKHOUSE CSO 9 24 97.1
United Utilities Chapel Pool Lune Estuary BAZIL LANE PUMPING STATION 15 21 100
United Utilities Artle Beck, River Lune ARTLE BECK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 21 99.3
United Utilities River Rawthey MORTAR PITS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 24 17 100
United Utilities Black Dyke CRAG BANK PUMPING STATION 4 11 100
United Utilities River Lune OVERTON GARDEN TERRACE PS 1 7 99.9
United Utilities Morecambe Bay HEYSHAM VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 9 7 100
United Utilities Middle Brook HEATON BRIDGE CSO BOLTON 8 6 100
United Utilities River Keer GARDNER ROAD PUMPING STATION 16 5 100
United Utilities Artle Beck ARTLEBECK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 2 97.4
United Utilities River Hindburn HINDBURN BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 8 2 100
United Utilities Lades Pool MIDDLE POOL PS MIDDP LAN0099 1 2 99.9
United Utilities River Bela SANDSIDE PUMPING STATION 1 1 100
United Utilities River Wenning HORNBY STW 21 0 99.9
United Utilities River Rawthey SETTLEBECK SEDBERGH CSO 1 0 99.6
United Utilities River Lune CASTERTON WWTW 0 0 68
United Utilities Holme Beck DUKE STREET 0 0 99.1
United Utilities Clvrt Back Lane / Kellet Rd FAIRFIELD RD RUSSELL RD CSO 25026 0 0 100
United Utilities Hatlex Beck HEST BANK PUMPING STATION 0 0 83.4
United Utilities Bessy Brook LOSTOCK JUNCTION LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Lades Pool Estuarine Waters MIDDLETON OVERTON WWTW MIDDL 0 0 99.8

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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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