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Morecambe Bay East; Lune (Broadfleet and Plover Scar)

Polluted by sewage 121 times in 2025 - lasting 530 hours

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Totals for Morecambe Bay East; Lune (Broadfleet and Plover Scar) in 2025

9 Sites polluted by United Utilities
121 sewage dumps
530 hours duration
That's 3.15 weeks. 2.3 times a week, on average

How does Morecambe Bay East; Lune (Broadfleet and Plover Scar) compare?

Morecambe Bay East; Lune (Broadfleet and Plover Scar) was the #43 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Morecambe Bay East; Lune (Broadfleet and Plover Scar) in 2025.

Accuracy Warning

We use data from the water companies, but we are seeing many anomalies that make us believe that location information is quite poor. The situation is likely far worse than reported here.

In particular: Totals on this page can differ from totals in the Ranked Shellfish page - number on this page are higher - this is due to a lack of standardization on shellfish area names. This page more accurately counts the differing names. For example "Solway" and "SOLWAY" are counted as different in the rankings, but correctly aggregated here.

Other CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s may also be located nearby, however the water companies claim that these do not affect the water quality here.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Lune Estuary LANCASTER WWTW LANCA 21 236 94.6
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 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

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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