Water company · North West
Recent spills
Serves Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside. Major rivers: Mersey, Ribble, Lune, Eden.
United Utilities operates 2,263 monitored storm overflows. 20 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 8 weeks across 9,572 events on average. The Truth Engine has 51 open flags against them right now.
2,263
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
20
Monitors offline
51
Open flags
2,393
Spills · last 7 days
8 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
7 min
Avg event length · 30 days
65
Spills · last 24 hours
31,957
spill events
57,176h
cumulative discharge
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 0.6h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.4h per overflow. ranked 1 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.