Irish Sea polluted by sewage 753 times in 2024 - lasting 4,066 hours

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Totals for Irish Sea in 2024
13 Sites polluted by United Utilities
753 sewage dumps
4,066 h duration
That's 5.65 months. On average 2.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Irish Sea in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Irish Sea WORKINGTON WWTW 152 1,001 100
United Utilities Irish Sea SEASCALE WWTW 62 628 99.9
United Utilities Irish Sea ANCHORSHOLME PS 62 613 100
United Utilities Irish Sea HYCEMOOR WWTW BOTHH 53 548 100
United Utilities Irish Sea BRAYSTONES WWTW 163 511 99.1
United Utilities Irish Sea WHITEHAVEN WWTW 74 257 100
United Utilities Irish Sea MANCHESTER SQUARE PS 44 159 100
United Utilities Irish Sea MARYPORT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 19 152 100
United Utilities Irish Sea ALLONBY WWTW ALLON 9 78 100
United Utilities Irish Sea CHATSWORTH AVENUE SPS 25 62 100
United Utilities Irish Sea WEST STRAND PUMPING STATION 45 44 100
United Utilities Irish Sea PARTON N.F. SHORE PUMPING STATION 40 5 99.9
United Utilities Irish Sea LENNOX GATE PUMPING STATION 5 3 100
United Utilities Irish Sea GYNN SQUARE 0 0 75.9
United Utilities Irish Sea HARROWSIDE PUMPING STATION 0 0 96.5
United Utilities Irish Sea STANLEY ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100

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. This 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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