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Glebe Road Pumping Station

Glebe Road Pumping Station

Welcome to Glebe Road Pumping Station (Tourist Information Centre). This building is key to protecting Windermere’s water quality. The purpose of a pumping station is to pump wastewater uphill, sending all the wastewater from homes and business to Windemere treatment works. It’s here where we can treat wastewater to the highest of standards before returning to the environment.

Inside this building is a screened storm tank which takes excess flows from the network in times of heavy rainfall. This helps support the pumping station next to the car park and stops flooding in the area.

After several upgrades, including a £40 million project in 2015, our pumping stations work more efficiently than ever before. If there’s lots of rainfall, we can now transfer around 400 litres per second to our treatment works, an increase from 70 litres per second before our investment.  This protects Windermere’s water quality by reducing the number of times our storm overflow operates.

Discover how we’re using the latest technology to protect Windermere’s water quality:

Report sewage pollution

If you suspect sewage pollution, please visit the link below to find out how you can report this to us.

Combined sewer overflows

Click the link below to find out more about combined sewer overflows, how these work and our key challenges.

How you can help

Whilst we have a big role to play in reducing overflow spill frequency, we all can play an active role in protecting rivers, lakes and seas.