Cat Smith Working for Lancaster and Fleetwood
The River Lune saw over 9400 hours of sewer overflow spills in 2022. Collectively that’s over one year of constant spills – 391 days!
The River Wyre has seen spills at Dolphinholme, Garstang, Great Eccleston, Kepple Lane, Knott End and Fleetwood.
- Lune Street Pumping Station: spilled 226 times, 5336.01 hours into the Lune
- Scale Hall Pumping Station: spilled 171 times, 3951.13 hours into the Lune
- Willow Lane Pumping Station: spilled 25 times, 67.70 hours into the Lune
- Halton East Pumping Station: spilled 83 times, 119.13 hours into the Lune
- Railway Farm (Galgate) Station: spilled 20 times, 18.33 hours into the Conder
- Cockerham CSO: spilled 142 times, 486.03 hours into the Cocker
- Scorton Village Pumping Station: spilled 59 times, 268.92 hours into the Wyre
- Kepple Lane CSO: spilled 70 times, 224.08 hours into the Wyre
- Great Eccleston Pumping Station: spilled 84 times, 357.83 hours into the Wyre
- Chatsworth Avenue Pumping Station: 13 times, 31.17 hours into the Irish Sea
Source: https://theriverstrust.org/sewage-map
Over the last 6 years there’s been over a million sewage spills in England. One every two-and-a-half minutes.
According to research by the Good Law Project, United Utilities dumped the most sewage in 2022. The impact of this is well known: risks to human health, marine life, and we have already seen some rivers in England declared ‘ecologically dead’ .
This cannot continue.
That’s why I’m asking you to sign my petition so that I can show the Government and United Utilities the strength of local feeling and tell them that people across Lancaster, Over Wyre and Fleetwood are saying enough is enough.