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Barrow-in-Furness

Polluted by sewage 728 times in 2025 lasting 3,159 hours

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Totals for Barrow-in-Furness in 2025

14 Sites polluted by United Utilities
728 sewage dumps
3,159 hours duration
That's 4.39 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barrow-in-Furness 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 place 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 Walney Channel BARROW-IN-FURNESS WWTW 113 1,201 99.9
United Utilities Millbeck ABBEY RD/HOLLOW LANE CSO 139 681 98.5
United Utilities Walney Channel PALACE NOOK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 53 346 100
United Utilities Walney Channel FERRY PUMPING STATION SITE ID 04528 58 337 100
United Utilities Morecambe Bay RAMPSIDE PUMPING STATION 55 271 100
United Utilities Walney Channel GRAVING DOCK PUMPING STATION 96 95 100
United Utilities Mill Beck/ Cavendish Dock FREDERICK ST PS 21 83 100
United Utilities Mill Beck 27/29 ABBOTSMEAD CSO 64 63 99.6
United Utilities Ormsgill Res AINSLIE STREET/NEWPORT ST CSO 041A7 34 33 99.9
United Utilities Walney Channel HARBOUR YARD PUMPING STATION 65 31 100
United Utilities Millbeck 31 ABBOTSMEAD APPROACH CSO 19 10 99.9
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir OXFORD STREET/AINSLIE STREET CSO 7 0 97
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir SCHNEIDER ROAD CSO 3 0 100
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir ROMNEY ROAD/TITCHFIELD STREET CSO 1 0 93.9
United Utilities Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge 188 RATING LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Mill Beck THORNCLIFFE RD/CLIFF LN CSO 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

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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