Lancaster

Polluted by sewage 333 times in 2024 lasting 922 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Lancaster in 2024

13 Sites polluted by United Utilities

333 sewage dumps

922 hours duration

That's 1.28 months. 6.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Lancaster

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lancaster 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 locality 1 of the total 14 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	River Lune	HALTON EAST STW	46	239	100
United Utilities	River Lune	HALTON EAST SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	92	215	100
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	WILLOW LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	31	122	99.9
United Utilities	Lune Estuary	SCALE HALL PUMPING STATION	32	107	98.7
United Utilities	River Lune	HALTON WEST PUMPING STATION HLTWE	40	70	100
United Utilities	Mill Race	LANCASTER BUS STATION CSO	15	55	100
United Utilities	Mill Race	DAMSIDE SCREENING CSO 25076	27	48	100
United Utilities	River Lune Est	BULK ROAD CSO 25097	11	27	100
United Utilities	Lune Estuary	CABLE STREET CSO 251H9	11	17	99.7
United Utilities	River Lune Estuarine Waters	LUNE STREET PUMPING STATION 25030	7	11	99.9
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	OWEN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	8	3	100
United Utilities	Mill Race	ROSEMARY LANE CSO 252PG	6	2	98.4
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	RAMPARTS CSO 25075	7	1	100
United Utilities	River Lune Estuary	DAMSIDE	0	0	0

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.

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