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Barrow and Furness

Polluted by sewage 1,945 times in 2025 lasting 16,611 hours - That's 1.92 years!

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Barrow and Furness in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,338 hours of sewage overflows, from 118 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Barrow and Furness in 2025

41 Sites polluted by United Utilities
1,945 sewage dumps
16,611 hours duration
That's 1.92 years. On average 5.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 44 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities Gleaston Beck GLEASTON CASTLE CSO 139 3,205 93
United Utilities River Crake SPARK BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 98 1,409 99.4
United Utilities Morecambe Bay Esturiane Waters BAYCLIFF PUMPING STATION 39051 84 1,331 99.9
United Utilities Soutergate Beck SOUTERGATE WWTW SOUTE SOUTE 90 1,271 99.3
United Utilities Walney Channel BARROW-IN-FURNESS WWTW 113 1,201 99.9
United Utilities Duddon Estuary MILLOM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 92 1,176 98.1
United Utilities Blea Beck ASKHAM-IN-FURNESS WWTW ASKAM 65 1,066 99.95
United Utilities Millbeck ABBEY RD/HOLLOW LANE CSO 139 681 98.5
United Utilities River Crake CRAKE VALLEY WWTW 94 629 99.3
United Utilities Leven Estuary COOPER LANE SPS 38 627 99.9
United Utilities Haverigg Pool HAVERIGG PUMPING STATION 48 595 100
United Utilities Irish Sea HYCEMOOR WWTW BOTHH 61 592 99.7
United Utilities River Leven GREENODD PUMPING STATION 52 475 99.8
United Utilities River Esk RAVENGLASS STW 27 366 99.5
United Utilities Walney Channel PALACE NOOK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 53 346 100
United Utilities Walney Channel FERRY PUMPING STATION SITE ID 04528 58 337 100
United Utilities Duddon Estuary GREETY GATE PUMPING STATION 77 275 99.5
United Utilities Morecambe Bay RAMPSIDE PUMPING STATION 55 271 100
United Utilities Poaka Beck DALTON SCREENS CSO 61 114 95.5
United Utilities Walney Channel GRAVING DOCK PUMPING STATION 96 95 100
United Utilities Mill Beck/ Cavendish Dock FREDERICK ST PS 21 83 100
United Utilities River Annas, Syke Beck BOOTLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 19 66 99.5
United Utilities Mill Beck 27/29 ABBOTSMEAD CSO 64 63 99.6
United Utilities Duddon Estuary FOXFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 13 59 99.5
United Utilities Piel Channel ROA ISLAND PUMPING STATION 23 48 76.3
United Utilities Soutergate Beck SOUTERGATE VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 38 43 99.9
United Utilities Ormsgill Res AINSLIE STREET/NEWPORT ST CSO 041A7 34 33 99.9
United Utilities Walney Channel HARBOUR YARD PUMPING STATION 65 31 100
United Utilities Deep Meadows Beck NEWBIGGIN (LEVEN) WWTW NEWBG 6 27 48.05
United Utilities Carter Pool PRIORY ROAD CSO 392MO 24 24 99.3
United Utilities Sarah Beck SOUTH EAST OF NEWTON SSO 22 18 97.4
United Utilities Duddon Estuary KING STREET PUMPING STATION 29 11 100
United Utilities Millbeck 31 ABBOTSMEAD APPROACH CSO 19 10 99.9
United Utilities Town Beck TOWN BECK CSO 39065 4 6 98.8
United Utilities Bardsea Beck BARDSEA SPS(TOILET BLOCK) 3 2 100
United Utilities Dragley Beck OAKWOOD DRIVE CROFTLANDS CSO 2 1 100
United Utilities Blea Beck K SHOES CSO 042B6 5 0 97.3
United Utilities Ulverston Channel/ Carter Pool ULVERSTON WWTW 3 0 100
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir OXFORD STREET/AINSLIE STREET CSO 7 0 97
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir SCHNEIDER ROAD CSO 3 0 100
United Utilities Ormsgill Reservoir ROMNEY ROAD/TITCHFIELD STREET CSO 1 0 93.9
United Utilities Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge 188 RATING LANE CSO 0 0 99.9
United Utilities Clarkes Beck LINDAL PUMPING STATION 04509 0 0 100
United Utilities Mill Beck THORNCLIFFE RD/CLIFF LN CSO 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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