Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was polluted by sewage 189 times in 2023
lasting 1,505 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross in 2023

3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

189 sewage dumps
1,505 h duration

That's 2.09 months. 3.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

Waterways in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 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 7 of the total 10 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 7 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Un-named watercourse discharging to Dornoch Firth	TAIN WWTW 1977 NH778828	37	809	99.45
Scottish Water	Moray Firth	BALINTORE WWTW 1970 NH862759	142	593	95.89
Scottish Water	Cambuscurrie Bay	EDDERTON WWTW NH707852	10	102	99.73
Scottish Water	Wick River	WATTEN WWTW 2001 ND245547	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Moray Firth	GOLSPIE SHORE ST CAR PARK CSO NH831998	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Thrumster Burn	THRUMSTER WWTW 1980 ND333453	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Moray Firth	WICK WWTW ND382510	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Wick River	WICK VICTORIA PLACE CSO SPS ND363508	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cromarty Firth	ALNESS AND INVERGORDON STW 2009 NH674690	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Wick River	WICK SCALESBURN SPS CSO ND368509	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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