Banff and Buchan was polluted by sewage 391 times in 2023
lasting 2,186 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Banff and Buchan in 2023

5 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

391 sewage dumps
2,186 h duration

That's 3.04 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Banff and Buchan

Waterways in Banff and Buchan

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Banff and Buchan 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 9 of the total 14 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 9 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Greenspeck Burn	NEW PITSLIGO WWTW 1992 NJ887568	73	969	99.73
Scottish Water	North Sea	PETERHEAD WWTW NK127442	205	681	100
Scottish Water	Fordyce Burn	FORDYCE WWTW 1960 NJ556640	25	271	81.64
Scottish Water	North Sea	FRASERBURGH WWTW 2001 NJ973669	76	216	100
Scottish Water	River Ythan	FYVIE WWTW 2010 NJ765375	12	47	99.73
Scottish Water	Peterhead Bay	PETERHEAD, HARBOUR ST. 610 PCSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Arkland Burn	ABERCHIRDER WWTW 1986 NJ629521	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Coastal waters	PETERHEAD BUCHANHAVEN WWPS 1977 NK129472	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Peterhead Bay	PETERHEAD, PETERHEAD SPS NO3 CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Sea	SANDEND, SEAVIEW ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Sea	PETERHEAD, PETERHEAD SPS NO1 CSO/EO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Sea	FRASERBURGH, LACKIE HEAD SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unknown	WHINNYFOLD SEP 1960 NK082332	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Peterhead Bay	PETERHEAD, SMITH EMBANKMENT 2A PS CSO/EO	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.

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