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Lancaster

Polluted by sewage 322 times in 2025 lasting 1,135 hours

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Totals for Lancaster in 2025

14 Sites polluted by United Utilities
322 sewage dumps
1,135 hours duration
That's 1.58 months. 6.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Constituency for Lancaster

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lancaster 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 Lune HALTON EAST STW 40 326 100
United Utilities River Lune Estuary WILLOW LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 30 181 99.9
United Utilities River Lune HALTON EAST SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 87 176 100
United Utilities River Lune HALTON WEST PUMPING STATION HLTWE 46 88 100
United Utilities Mill Race DAMSIDE SCREENING CSO 25076 18 67 100
United Utilities River Lune Est BULK ROAD CSO 25097 17 66 71.1
United Utilities River Lune Estuary DAMSIDE 17 66 99.8
United Utilities Mill Race LANCASTER BUS STATION CSO 11 60 99.8
United Utilities Lune Estuary SCALE HALL PUMPING STATION 17 57 99.8
United Utilities Lune Estuary CABLE STREET CSO 251H9 15 23 96.3
United Utilities River Lune Estuary OWEN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 12 100
United Utilities River Lune Estuary RAMPARTS CSO 25075 5 4 100
United Utilities Mill Race ROSEMARY LANE CSO 252PG 8 2 76.2
United Utilities River Lune Estuarine Waters LUNE STREET PUMPING STATION 25030 2 0 99.2

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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