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River Ellen polluted by sewage 838 times in 2023 - lasting 10,271 hours

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Totals for River Ellen in 2023
7 Sites polluted by United Utilities
838 sewage dumps
10,271 h duration
That's 1.19 years! On average 2.3 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Ellen in 2023. 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 River Ellen PLUMBLAND WWTW 307 4,763 52.4
United Utilities River Ellen BLENNERHASSET WW PUMPING STATION 178 3,184 100
United Utilities River Ellen ASPATRIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 104 1,298 100
United Utilities River Ellen DEARHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 119 726 100
United Utilities River Ellen ELLEN VALE CSO 84 228 100
United Utilities River Ellen BULLGILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 45 65 99.9
United Utilities River Ellen BLENNERHASSET WWTW BLENN 1 4 100

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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