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River Eden polluted by sewage 1,325 times in 2025 - lasting 8,099 hours

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Totals for River Eden in 2025
27 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,325 sewage dumps
8,099 h duration
That's 11.25 months. On average 3.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Eden KIRKBY STEPHEN WWTW 221 2,638 99.85
United Utilities River Eden WINTON PUMPING STATION 140 1,427 99.8
United Utilities River Eden LITTLE SALKELD WWTW 118 1,013 96.8
United Utilities River Eden EDENHALL VILLAGE AND HOTEL WWTW 118 574 100
United Utilities River Eden CARLISLE WWTW 59 359 100
United Utilities River Eden CULGAITH STW 39 280 100
United Utilities River Eden LANGWATHBY WWTW 28 270 100
United Utilities River Eden NEAR TRINITY SCHOOL 65 215 100
United Utilities River Eden LANGWATHBY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 54 166 99.9
United Utilities River Eden BOLTON PENRITH WWTW 54 156 99.5
United Utilities River Eden GREAT SALKELD WWTW GRSAL 38 147 99.9
United Utilities River Eden STENKRITH BRIDGE SSO 16 115 98.1
United Utilities River Eden CSO ADJACENT TO CARGO WWTW CARGO 64 105 99
United Utilities River Eden KIRKOSWALD STW 40 94 99.6
United Utilities River Eden APPLEBY CSO 20 89 99.9
United Utilities River Eden STANWIX/STAINTON CSO 21 86 99.7
United Utilities River Eden ETTERBY TERRACE CSO 30 70 99.9
United Utilities River Eden APPLEBY WWTW 17 64 100
United Utilities River Eden WETHERAL AND GREAT CORBY WWTW WETHE 19 62 100
United Utilities River Eden LAZONBY PS AND CSO 40 60 99.9
United Utilities River Eden ARMATHWAITE WWTW 67 45 98.8
United Utilities River Eden SANDFORD VILLAGE WWTW 25 33 99.7
United Utilities River Eden LITTLE CORBY PS 11 11 99.9
United Utilities River Eden HOLME ST/CHAPEL ST CSO (171ZK) 7 2 99.8
United Utilities River Eden THE FLATS CSO 171U1 7 2 100
United Utilities River Eden GREAT CORBY SYPHON CSO (10C88) 6 1 100
United Utilities River Eden RICKERBY PARK CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities River Eden CARGO WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 93.7
United Utilities River Eden CROSBY ON EDEN PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
United Utilities River Eden WARWICK ON EDEN PS 0 0 80.6

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.

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