Angus was polluted by sewage 53 times in 2023
lasting 5,567 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

© OpenStreetMap contributors
Contains OS Data © Crown copyright & database right 2021-2023
© Top of the Poops 2021-2023
✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023
Totals for Angus in 2023
2 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
53 sewage dumps
5,567 h duration
That's 7.73 months. 1 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
Take Action
Your local MP is Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party) - Find out more about their interests, donors, and voting at They Work For You

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Angus in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 6 of the total 8 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 6 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water Ladywell Burn KIRRIEMUIR WWTW 1986 NO388525 18 4,887 97.81
Scottish Water River South Esk BRECHIN WWTW 1972 NO619591 35 680 78.9
Scottish Water Lunan Water FRIOCKHEIM WWTW 1973 NO601502 0 0 0
Scottish Water Treacle Burn FORFAR, CASTLE ST/EAST HIGH ST CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Noran Water NORANSIDE WWTW 2010 NO471608 0 0 0
Scottish Water Ladywell Burn KIRRIEMUIR, SOUTHMUIR NO2 CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water South Esk Estuary MONTROSE WWTW 2002 NO724603 0 0 0
Scottish Water Hornie Burn FORFAR, THE MYRE/MYRESIDE RD CSO 0 0 0

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.