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River Lune polluted by sewage 580 times in 2025 - lasting 3,178 hours

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Totals for River Lune in 2025
10 Sites polluted by United Utilities
580 sewage dumps
3,178 h duration
That's 4.41 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Lune CATON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 83 838 100
United Utilities River Lune TEBAY STW 95 639 95.1
United Utilities River Lune TEBAY PUMPING STATION 61 593 95.8
United Utilities River Lune KIRKBY LONSDALE STW 128 437 99.9
United Utilities River Lune HALTON EAST STW 40 326 100
United Utilities River Lune HALTON EAST SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 87 176 100
United Utilities River Lune HALTON WEST PUMPING STATION HLTWE 46 88 100
United Utilities River Lune THURTELL COTTAGES CSO LAN0091 35 65 82.6
United Utilities River Lune OVERTON GARDEN TERRACE PS 1 7 99.9
United Utilities River Lune SSO ADJ CROSS KEYS INN 4 3 72.3
United Utilities River Lune CASTERTON WWTW 0 0 68

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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