Water company · North West
Currently spilling
Serves Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside. Major rivers: Mersey, Ribble, Lune, Eden.
United Utilities operates 2,262 monitored storm overflows. 5 are currently spilling. 36 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 3.6 years across 3,152 events on average. The Truth Engine has 160 open flags against them right now.
2,262
Storm overflows
5
Active right now
36
Monitors offline
160
Open flags
788
Spills · last 7 days
3.6 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
23.6 h
Avg event length · 30 days
560
Spills · last 24 hours
15,627
spill events
+8933% vs prior 12m
2,606,195h
cumulative discharge
+3166% vs prior 12m
1.9 years
longest single event (all time)
2024-08-07
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, United Utilities averaged 14.0h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 23.6h per overflow. ranked 4 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most United Utilities overflows discharging into them.