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Polluted by sewage 2,450 times in 2024 lasting 24,636 hours - That's 2.85 years!
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 2,855 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.33 years!
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Barrow and Furness, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barrow and Furness in 2024. 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 3 of the total 45 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 2 had zero reporting.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Gleaston Beck | GLEASTON CASTLE CSO | 191 | 4,517 | 99.4 |
| United Utilities | Deep Meadows Beck | NEWBIGGIN (LEVEN) WWTW NEWBG | 216 | 3,863 | 69.3 |
| United Utilities | Blea Beck | ASKHAM-IN-FURNESS WWTW ASKAM | 111 | 1,782 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Crake | SPARK BRIDGE PUMPING STATION | 123 | 1,675 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Duddon Estuary | MILLOM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 117 | 1,526 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Walney Channel | BARROW-IN-FURNESS WWTW | 154 | 1,444 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Soutergate Beck | SOUTERGATE WWTW SOUTE SOUTE | 92 | 1,359 | 92.3 |
| United Utilities | Morecambe Bay Esturiane Waters | BAYCLIFF PUMPING STATION 39051 | 88 | 1,338 | 99.9 |
| United Utilities | River Leven | GREENODD PUMPING STATION | 102 | 1,067 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Esk | RAVENGLASS STW | 49 | 697 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Millbeck | ABBEY RD/HOLLOW LANE CSO | 171 | 681 | 97.6 |
| United Utilities | Irish Sea | HYCEMOOR WWTW BOTHH | 53 | 548 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Crake | CRAKE VALLEY WWTW | 77 | 509 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Leven Estuary | COOPER LANE SPS | 31 | 468 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Walney Channel | FERRY PUMPING STATION SITE ID 04528 | 53 | 449 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Haverigg Pool | HAVERIGG PUMPING STATION | 46 | 414 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Walney Channel | PALACE NOOK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 59 | 360 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Morecambe Bay | RAMPSIDE PUMPING STATION | 66 | 346 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Duddon Estuary | GREETY GATE PUMPING STATION | 53 | 267 | 98.3 |
| United Utilities | Piel Channel | ROA ISLAND PUMPING STATION | 57 | 161 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Soutergate Beck | SOUTERGATE VILLAGE PUMPING STATION | 25 | 151 | 92.2 |
| United Utilities | Duddon Estuary | FOXFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 18 | 150 | 99.6 |
| United Utilities | Poaka Beck | DALTON SCREENS CSO | 63 | 142 | 99.8 |
| United Utilities | River Annas, Syke Beck | BOOTLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 30 | 110 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Walney Channel | GRAVING DOCK PUMPING STATION | 111 | 102 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Clarkes Beck | LINDAL PUMPING STATION 04509 | 39 | 100 | 98 |
| United Utilities | Ormsgill Reservoir | ROMNEY ROAD/TITCHFIELD STREET CSO | 12 | 96 | 90.2 |
| United Utilities | Mill Beck/ Cavendish Dock | FREDERICK ST PS | 20 | 63 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Town Beck | TOWN BECK CSO 39065 | 28 | 52 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Duddon Estuary | KING STREET PUMPING STATION | 27 | 46 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Carter Pool | PRIORY ROAD CSO 392MO | 18 | 39 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Walney Channel | HARBOUR YARD PUMPING STATION | 75 | 36 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Sarah Beck | SOUTH EAST OF NEWTON SSO | 26 | 29 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Dragley Beck | OAKWOOD DRIVE CROFTLANDS CSO | 3 | 13 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Millbeck | 31 ABBOTSMEAD APPROACH CSO | 23 | 11 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Ormsgill Reservoir | OXFORD STREET/AINSLIE STREET CSO | 8 | 4 | 88.3 |
| United Utilities | Bardsea Beck | BARDSEA SPS(TOILET BLOCK) | 1 | 2 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Ulverston Channel/ Carter Pool | ULVERSTON WWTW | 9 | 1 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Blea Beck | K SHOES CSO 042B6 | 3 | 0 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Ormsgill Reservoir | SCHNEIDER ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Kirby Pool | MARSHSIDE | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Ormsgill Res | AINSLIE STREET/NEWPORT ST CSO 041A7 | 0 | 0 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Mill Beck Via Roose Bridge | 188 RATING LANE CSO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| United Utilities | Mill Beck | THORNCLIFFE RD/CLIFF LN CSO | 0 | 0 | 32.1 |
| United Utilities | Mill Beck | 27/29 ABBOTSMEAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
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