Westmorland and Lonsdale was polluted by sewage 2,622 times in 2023
lasting 35,606 hours - that's 4.12 years!

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Totals for Westmorland and Lonsdale in 2023
36 Sites polluted by United Utilities
2,622 sewage dumps
35,606 h duration
That's 4.12 years! On average 7.2 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Westmorland and Lonsdale 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 0 of the total 39 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Eea CARTMEL IN CARK PUMPING STATION 281 6,471 99.5
United Utilities River Kent STAVELEY WWTW 323 5,336 99.15
United Utilities Church Beck CONISTON WWTW 178 3,389 100
United Utilities Grasmere Lake GRASMERE WWTW 105 2,532 98.8
United Utilities Black Beck HAWKSHEAD PUMPING STATION 154 2,407 97
United Utilities Windermoor Main Drain FIELD HEAD PUMPING STATION LAK0090 178 2,083 99.3
United Utilities Cunsey Beck NEAR SAWREY WWTW NEARS 104 2,028 100
United Utilities River Bela MILNTHORPE SEWAGE PS MLNTH 86 1,744 98.8
United Utilities River Rawthey SEDBERGH STW 64 1,491 100
United Utilities Marsh Drain HEVERSHAM SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 125 1,474 99.8
United Utilities River Kent KENDAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 131 1,261 100
United Utilities River Winster LINDALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 84 1,166 100
United Utilities Great Langdale Beck ELTERWATER PUMPING STATION 41 996 100
United Utilities River Rothay AMBLESIDE WWTW 46 582 99.1
United Utilities Holme Beck DUKE STREET 90 511 96.4
United Utilities Torver Beck TORVER STW 103 376 100
United Utilities Meathop Marsh Drain MEATHOP PUMPING STATION 26 360 95
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 Morecambe Bay Estuarine Wtrs JUNC PROMENADE SILVERDALE RD CSO 42 147 100
United Utilities Kent Estuary GRANGE PUMPING STATION 32 147 99.9
United Utilities Kent Channel CART LANE PUMPING STATION 10 93 100
United Utilities River Leven LOW WOOD BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 33 78 100
United Utilities Kent Channel Morecambe Estuary GRANGE OVER SANDS WWTW GRNGS 79 73 99.9
United Utilities River Kent SEDGWICK PUMPING STATION 38 51 92.3
United Utilities River Lune CASTERTON WWTW 14 34 100
United Utilities River Kent Estuary, Morecambe Bay ARNSIDE PROMENADE PUMPING STATION 33 24 100
United Utilities Windermoor Main Drain RAVENSTOWN PUMPING STATION 7 24 99.9
United Utilities Sealford Beck HUTTON ROOF STW 8 15 100
United Utilities River Rawthey MORTAR PITS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 26 14 100
United Utilities Kent Channel MORECAMBE BANK CSO 20 12 100
United Utilities Middle Brook HEATON BRIDGE CSO BOLTON 21 4 100
United Utilities River Bela SANDSIDE PUMPING STATION 2 4 100
United Utilities Holme Beck Via Sws HOLME WWTW 2 1 100
United Utilities Kent Channel Morecambe Bay PROMENADE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 0 54.9
United Utilities River Eea CARK TANK NO.1 PUMPINT STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities Bessy Brook LOSTOCK JUNCTION LANE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Rawthey SETTLEBECK SEDBERGH CSO 0 0 96.6

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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