Whitehaven and Workington was polluted by sewage 2,573 times in 2024
lasting 15,048 hours - that's 1.74 years!

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Live data for Whitehaven and Workington in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 2,020 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.23 years!
Totals for Whitehaven and Workington in 2024
54 Sites polluted by United Utilities, Wessex Water
2,573 sewage dumps
15,048 h duration
That's 1.74 years! On average 7 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Whitehaven and Workington, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Whitehaven and Workington in 2024. 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 58 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 Near Stock Beck DEAN VILLAGE WW PUMPING STATION 137 1,608 99.7
United Utilities Dubbs Gutter EAGLESFIELD WWTW EAGLE 139 1,571 96.4
United Utilities River Marron LITTLE CLIFTON STW 110 1,309 97.1
United Utilities River Keekle KEEKLE PUMPING STATION 135 1,067 100
United Utilities Irish Sea WORKINGTON WWTW 152 1,001 100
United Utilities River Keekle CLEATOR WWTW 71 886 100
United Utilities Dyan Beck PICA STW 56 695 46.6
United Utilities Irish Sea SEASCALE WWTW 62 628 99.9
United Utilities Far Stock Beck DEANSCALES PS & CSO 108 625 99.9
United Utilities River Calder CALDER BRIDGE WWTW 51 597 100
United Utilities Irish Sea BRAYSTONES WWTW 163 511 99.1
United Utilities Pow Beck ST BEES PUMPING STATION 47 461 100
United Utilities Distington Beck HAYES CASTLE FARM CSO (02628) 97 437 99.6
United Utilities Ling Beck LOWCA LANE HAZEL GROVE CSO 82 383 99.9
United Utilities River Keekle BLIND LANE CSO 02627 50 351 100
United Utilities River Ehen BROOKSIDE CSO 80 343 99.9
United Utilities River Keekle MOOR ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 88 287 99.1
United Utilities River Derwent NORTHSIDE CSO 021QB 80 263 98.7
United Utilities Irish Sea WHITEHAVEN WWTW 74 257 100
United Utilities Colliergate Beck ROWRAH PUMPING STATION 28 236 100
United Utilities Lowca Beck LOWCA BROW (PARTON) CSO 60 195 100
United Utilities River Ehen PICKET HOW FARM SSO 18 143 100
United Utilities River Derwent Estuary JOHN PIER SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 29 127 99.1
Wessex Water River Stour HAYES LANE PUMPING STATION 28 112 99.8
United Utilities Stan Beck HIGH STREET WORKINGTON CSO 68 109 100
United Utilities Dub Beck ARLECDON STW 24 98 100
United Utilities Black Beck PARDSHAW STW 54 89 100
United Utilities Eller Gill ARLECDON PARKS ROAD CSO 38 80 99
United Utilities Pow Beck MEADOW RD CSO 023A8 24 77 96.1
United Utilities River Marron GLEN HOUSE CSO 47 76 98.7
United Utilities River Derwent CAMERTON WW PUMPING STATION 26 73 88.2
United Utilities Snebra Beck WINSTON DRIVE HENSINGHAM CSO 02632 30 62 99.8
United Utilities Hawes Gill KIRKLAND STW 55 50 99.2
United Utilities Norbeck NORBECK PARK A CSO (SITE 023A9) 56 46 96.6
United Utilities Irish Sea WEST STRAND PUMPING STATION 45 44 100
United Utilities Pow Beck ESK AVENUE MIREHOUSE CSO 17 41 99.4
United Utilities River Marron BRANTHWAITE PUMPING STATION 12 20 100
United Utilities Clvrt Pow Beck Via Sws LATTRIGG RD CSO 022CJ 19 16 99.2
United Utilities Pow Beck GRISEDALE CLOSE CSO 23 14 99.4
United Utilities Blackwood Beck MORESBY PARKS PS 7 14 99.9
United Utilities Hare Beck GOSFORTH WWTW 3 7 100
United Utilities Irish Sea PARTON N.F. SHORE PUMPING STATION 40 5 99.9
United Utilities River Wyre MELBOURNE TERRACE CSO 21 4 99.1
United Utilities Pow Beck CROASDALE AVENUE CSO 4 3 99.4
United Utilities River Ehen KILN BROW PUMPING STATION 5 1 100
United Utilities Nor Beck REAR GARDEN OF 16 CROSSINGS CLOSE 1 1 86.9
United Utilities Winder Beck 28/29 ARLECDON PARKS ROAD CSO 1 0 99.3
United Utilities Lowca Beck ULLGILL MORESBY (MH65) CSO 2 0 99.3
United Utilities Pow Beck POW BRIDGE/STATION ROAD CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Townsend Beck THE CSO AT MAIN STREET 1 0 99.2
United Utilities Pow Beck SNEBRA WHITEHAVEN CSO 023B2 1 0 99.2
United Utilities Culverted Sec Of Snebra Beck RIBTON MOORSIDE CSO 1 0 93.7
United Utilities River Ehen KILN BROW COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99
United Utilities Needless Beck LINETHWAITE PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
United Utilities River Derwent CAMERTON WWTW CAMER 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Distington Beck COMMON END COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.1
United Utilities Winder Beck ARLECDON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.3
United Utilities Distington Beck MILL COTTAGES CSO 0 0 88.3

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. 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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