Dumfries and Galloway

Polluted by sewage 979 times in 2024 lasting 6,370 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Dumfries and Galloway in 2024

9 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
979 sewage dumps
6,370 hours duration
That's 8.85 months. On average 2.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dumfries and Galloway in 2024. 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 3 of the total 12 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water Cluden Water LINCLUDEN WWTW SSSO 440 3,130 100.27
Scottish Water Kirkgunzeon Lane BEESWING WWTW CSO AND SSSO 88 1,468 75.89
Scottish Water River Nith TROQUEER WWTW - 3DWF POST-PST SSSO 142 414 100.27
Scottish Water Loch Ryan STRANRAER, FORELAND PLACE CSO NX054614 24 323 75.62
Scottish Water River Nith TROQUEER WWTW CSO AND EO 103 292 75.34
Scottish Water Cluden Water LINCLUDEN WWTW CSO 94 274 100.27
Scottish Water Tarry Burn CASTLE DOUGLAS WWTW SSSO 82 264 100.27
Scottish Water Tarry Burn CASTLE DOUGLAS WWTW EO 2 194 99.45
Scottish Water River Nith TROQUEER WWTW 1950 NX971745 4 6 75.34
Scottish Water River Dee KIRKCUDBRIGHT WWTW SSSO AND EO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Channel PORTPATRICK SEP CSO AND EO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Barcloy Mill Burn ROCKCLIFFE WWTW SSSO 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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