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Pow Beck polluted by sewage 247 times in 2025 - lasting 1,608 hours

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Totals for Pow Beck in 2025
7 Sites polluted by United Utilities
247 sewage dumps
1,608 h duration
That's 2.23 months. 4.8 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Pow Beck ST BEES PUMPING STATION 64 907 100
United Utilities Pow Beck PORTINSCALE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 119 557 99.8
United Utilities Pow Beck MEADOW RD CSO 023A8 19 74 99.8
United Utilities Pow Beck GRISEDALE CLOSE CSO 18 40 85.7
United Utilities Pow Beck ESK AVENUE MIREHOUSE CSO 16 16 99.5
United Utilities Pow Beck CROASDALE AVENUE CSO 9 11 96.6
United Utilities Pow Beck SNEBRA WHITEHAVEN CSO 023B2 2 1 99.9
United Utilities Pow Beck POW BRIDGE/STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 86.8

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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