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River Petteril polluted by sewage 297 times in 2025 - lasting 1,054 hours

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Totals for River Petteril in 2025
13 Sites polluted by United Utilities
297 sewage dumps
1,054 h duration
That's 1.46 months. 5.7 times a week, on average
Places along River Petteril

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Petteril NEWTON REIGNY PUMPING STATION 50 379 100
United Utilities River Petteril PENRUDDOCK SPS 57 219 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril CARLETON MILL PUMPING STATION 29 160 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril WREAY WWTW WREAY 32 82 100
United Utilities River Petteril LOW HESKET STW 24 55 99.9
United Utilities River Petteril SOUTHWAITE PS 12 45 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril PETTERIL RAILWAY BRIDGE SSO 10 38 99.7
United Utilities River Petteril MELBOURNE PARK CSO 16 36 97.3
United Utilities River Petteril GILFORD PARK CSO (10542) 13 12 100
United Utilities River Petteril WARICK ROADWWNW PS 20 10 100
United Utilities River Petteril SOUTHWAITE WWTW 7 7 100
United Utilities River Petteril PLUMPTON NORTH WWTW PLUMN 22 4 98.8
United Utilities River Petteril GREYSTOKE WWTW 5 1 100
United Utilities River Petteril MOTHERBY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 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.

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