Top of the Poops | Place | Distington | Polluted by United Utilities

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Totals for Distington in 2025

2 Sites polluted by United Utilities

93 sewage dumps

442 hours duration

That's 2.63 weeks. 1.8 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Distington 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	Distington Beck	HAYES CASTLE FARM CSO (02628)	92	442	99.8
United Utilities	Distington Beck	MILL COTTAGES CSO	1	0	100
United Utilities	Distington Beck	COMMON END COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100

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EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

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