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. 2 are currently spilling. 27 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 40.9 years across 1,640 events on average. The Truth Engine has 397 open flags against them right now.
2,262
Storm overflows
2
Active right now
27
Monitors offline
397
Open flags
410
Spills · last 7 days
40.9 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
2 days
Avg event length · 30 days
32
Spills · last 24 hours
12,898
spill events
+9525% vs prior 12m
830,764h
cumulative discharge
+1034% vs prior 12m
1.8 years
longest single event (all time)
2024-08-07
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, United Utilities averaged 158.5h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.8h per overflow. ranked 8 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.