Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was polluted by sewage 601 times in 2023
lasting 14,378 hours - that's 1.66 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in 2023

11 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

601 sewage dumps
14,378 h duration

That's 1.66 years! On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 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 12 of the total 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 12 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Leader Water	LAUDER WWTW 1974 NT540471	58	5,261	99.45
Scottish Water	River Tweed	MELROSE WWTW 1970 NT551346	28	3,431	99.73
Scottish Water	Teviot Water	DENHOLM WWTW 1972 NT571189	57	1,847	93.42
Scottish Water	River Teviot	HAWICK WWTW 1930 NT512155	154	1,287	100
Scottish Water	Ettrick Water	SELKIRK WWTW NT474298	25	771	61.37
Scottish Water	River Tweed	GALASHIELS WWTW NT513351	143	723	100
Scottish Water	Liddel Water	NEWCASTLETON WWTW 1993 NY482866	54	583	96.58
Scottish Water	River Tweed	KELSO WWTW 1962 NT736346	46	177	99.73
Scottish Water	Whiteadder Water	CHIRNSIDE WWTW NT870557	18	167	29.13
Scottish Water	Ale Water	ANCRUM WWTW 1980 NT628241	16	126	99.45
Scottish Water	Gala Water	FOUNTAINHALL WWTW 2002 NT431494	2	2	100
Scottish Water	River Tweed	NEWTOWN ST BOSWELLS WWTW NT582318	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Teviot Water	JEDBURGH WWTW 1965 NT658225	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Tweed	KELSO, OP TWEEDBANK COT/BULLET LOAN PCSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Blackadder Water	GREENLAW WWTW 1965 NT720461	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Tweed	COLDSTREAM WWTW 1974 NT858412	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Blackadder Water	DUNS WWTW 1965 NT797532	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Teviot	HAWICK, WEENSLAND SYPHON CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Leader Water	EARLSTON WWTW 1959 NT573382	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Sea	EYEMOUTH WWTW 2002 NT951632	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Tweed	MELROSE, ANNAY RD/WOODYARD NO1 CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unknown	STOW WWPS 1980 NT457446	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Gala Water	STOW SPS 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.

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