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Carlisle

Polluted by sewage 416 times in 2025 lasting 1,396 hours

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Totals for Carlisle in 2025

18 Sites polluted by United Utilities
416 sewage dumps
1,396 hours duration
That's 1.94 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

Constituency for Carlisle

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Carlisle 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 River Eden CARLISLE WWTW 59 359 100
United Utilities River Eden NEAR TRINITY SCHOOL 65 215 100
United Utilities River Caldew BOUSTEADS GRASSINGS CSO 59 214 98.8
United Utilities River Petteril CARLETON MILL PUMPING STATION 29 160 99.7
United Utilities Collar Beck SCOTBY CSO 26 121 100
United Utilities River Eden STANWIX/STAINTON CSO 21 86 99.7
United Utilities River Eden ETTERBY TERRACE CSO 30 70 99.9
United Utilities River Petteril PETTERIL RAILWAY BRIDGE SSO 10 38 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril MELBOURNE PARK CSO 16 36 97.3
United Utilities River Caldew CROWN STREET (TOWN DYKE ORCHARD 28 28 96.7
United Utilities Parham Beck INFIRMARY STREET CARLISLE CSO 19 23 100
United Utilities River Petteril GILFORD PARK CSO (10542) 13 12 100
United Utilities River Petteril WARICK ROADWWNW PS 20 10 100
United Utilities Dow Beck Culvert FINN AVENUE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 9 100
United Utilities River Caldew B&Q CSO (101C4) 8 5 94
United Utilities River Caldew RICKERBY CSO 4 1 100
United Utilities River Caldew LIME STREET SPS 1 0 100
United Utilities River Eden RICKERBY PARK CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Pow Beck Via Sws CAIRD AVENUE COMBINED SEWEROVERFLOW 0 0 94
United Utilities Dow Beck Culvert STONEGARTH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 93.3

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. 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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