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Irish Sea polluted by sewage 698 times in 2025 - lasting 4,678 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Irish Sea in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Irish Sea BRAYSTONES WWTW 168 1,082 99.7
United Utilities Irish Sea WORKINGTON WWTW 122 643 100
United Utilities Irish Sea ANCHORSHOLME PS 49 611 100
United Utilities Irish Sea HYCEMOOR WWTW BOTHH 61 592 99.7
United Utilities Irish Sea SEASCALE WWTW 41 483 99.6
United Utilities Irish Sea MARYPORT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 35 385 100
United Utilities Irish Sea ALLONBY WWTW ALLON 20 295 99.8
United Utilities Irish Sea MANCHESTER SQUARE PS 42 238 100
United Utilities Irish Sea WHITEHAVEN WWTW 34 230 100
United Utilities Irish Sea CHATSWORTH AVENUE SPS 32 79 99.9
United Utilities Irish Sea WEST STRAND PUMPING STATION 59 28 100
United Utilities Irish Sea PARTON N.F. SHORE PUMPING STATION 34 5 99.5
United Utilities Irish Sea LENNOX GATE PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.9
United Utilities Irish Sea GYNN SQUARE 0 0 69.7
United Utilities Irish Sea HARROWSIDE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities Irish Sea SANDGATE PUMPING STATION NO 2 0 0 100
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. 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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