Unit 2
Prospect Garage
Distington
Cumbria
CA14 5XH
United Kingdom
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Opening hours
Monday - 8am to 5pm
Tuesday - 8am to 5pm
Wednesday - 8am to 5pm
Thursday - 8am to 5pm
Friday - 8am to 5pm
Saturday - Closed
Sunday - Closed
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Need reliable pump, water tank, or treatment hire across the North West?
Selwood Workington is your trusted local partner helping you move, store, and treat water. As the UK’s leading pump hire provider, we deliver robust, efficient equipment backed by decades of innovation and technical expertise, ensuring your project runs smoothly every time.
Located at Harbourside, right where the River Derwent meets the West Cumbrian coast - and with easy access via the A66 - our depot is ideally placed to serve Cumbria, the Lake District, the Isle of Man, and the surrounding areas. Whether you require planned support for utilities or civil engineering schemes, or urgent 24/7 emergency overpumping, our local team delivers tailored solutions and technical advice built around your site's specific demands.
Our Pump Hire & Water Solutions Services
Pump Hire
From reservoir maintenance in the Lake District to industrial sites along the West Cumbria coast and out across to the Isle of Man, our Workington depot supplies diesel and electric pumps built for genuinely demanding terrain.
Our engineers size every job to the site, from single units to full multi-pump major utility setups — backed by 24/7 emergency call-out across Cumbria and beyond.
Water Tank Hire (SelTank)
Tourist season across the Lake District and coastal Cumbria brings real swings in demand on local water networks, and rural sites often sit well beyond easy access to permanent infrastructure. Our water tank hire solution, SelTank, gives utilities and contractors scalable storage for wastewater, stormwater, and sludge without the wait for a permanent tank.
Deployed in as little as a day and built to link together as volumes rise, SelTank keeps projects moving whether you're working lakeside or out on the coast.
Sewer Bypass Pumping
Working across the Lake District National Park, Morecambe Bay, and the Solway Firth leaves zero margin for error. Our temporary bypass and overpumping systems keep critical flows moving seamlessly during planned repairs and emergency upgrades, ensuring you meet environmental compliance.
Mobilised quickly from our Workington depot, we handle everything from hydraulic calculations to rapid site setup and 24/7 telemetry monitoring - a turnkey package built for Cumbria’s most sensitive terrain.
Site Dewatering
Groundwater varies wildly across Cumbria. From tidally influenced coastal sites along the Solway Firth to high-volume runoff in the inland fells, waterlogged ground quickly threatens site safety and project schedules.
Our local dewatering specialists engineer tailored wellpoint and pumped systems for your exact ground conditions - whether for residential groundworks or heavy civil engineering. We keep your excavations dry, stable, and compliant from day one.
Water Treatment Solutions
Delivered with our sister company Siltbuster, our water treatment packages handle clarification, pH correction, and chemical or biological treatment before discharge — work that carries extra weight given how much of our region sits within the Lake District National Park and along ecologically sensitive coastline like Morecambe Bay.
We support projects of any scale across Cumbria, the Lake District, and the Isle of Man, keeping you compliant without slowing your project down.
Flood Response & Emergency Pumping
Morecambe Bay carries one of the largest tidal ranges in the UK, and the rivers draining the Lake District — the Derwent, the Eden, the Kent — bring genuine flood risk to the towns along their banks. Our Workington team is on standby around the clock, ready to mobilise when you need us.
Our team is on hand to protect pumping stations, clear flooded roads, and keep wastewater out of homes and businesses across Cumbria and the surrounding coast.
Regional coverage with rapid deployment
West Cumbria: Including Workington, Whitehaven, Maryport, Cockermouth, Egremont, Seascale, Cleator Moor, and Millom.
Carlisle & North Cumbria: Including Carlisle, Wigton, Brampton, Longtown, Aspatria, and Alston.
Eden Valley & North Lakes: Including Penrith, Keswick, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Kirkby Stephen, and Caldbeck.
Furness Peninsula & South Lakes: Including Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Dalton-in-Furness, Windermere, Ambleside, Coniston, and Grange-over-Sands.
Kendal, Lune Valley & Morecambe Bay: Including Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, Sedbergh, Milnthorpe, Carnforth, and Morecambe.
Isle of Man: Island-wide coverage, including Douglas, Ramsey, Peel, Castletown, Port Erin, and Onchan.
Delivering across key sectors
From our Workington depot, we deliver specialist hire solutions across three key sectors - handling everything from site dewatering and sewer bypass to clean water supply, flood management, effluent treatment, and emergency drought response.
Water Utilities
Delivering critical support through temporary solutions across both waste and clean water operations
Infrastructure
Providing mission-critical support across major projects including housing, road, rail, power, airports, and more
Industrial
Servicing a broad sector including food and beverage, manufacturing, paper and pump, and more
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For 24/7 support across Cumbria, the Lake District, Morecambe Bay, and the Isle of Man, please call our emergency line directly on 03330 142 000.
Need pump hire elsewhere in the UK?
With 23 specialist depots nationwide and over 6,500 pumps in our fleet, Selwood is the UK's mission-critical water handling partner. And our expert teams are ready to support your site 24/7/365.
