Dumfries and Galloway was polluted by sewage 1,408 times in 2023
lasting 9,733 hours - that's 1.13 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Dumfries and Galloway in 2023

4 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

1,408 sewage dumps
9,733 h duration

That's 1.13 years! On average 3.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Dumfries and Galloway

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dumfries and Galloway 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 12 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	Cluden Water	LINCLUDEN WWTW 1930 NX963780	980	6,726	97.81
Scottish Water	Kirkgunzeon Lane	BEESWING WWTW NX891692	105	2,223	95.07
Scottish Water	River Nith	TROQUEER WWTW 1950 NX971745	170	427	100
Scottish Water	River Nith	TROQUEER WWTP CSO	153	356	100
Scottish Water	River Dee	KIRKCUDBRIGHT WWTW 1988 NX677510	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ryan	STRANRAER, FORELAND PLACE CSO NX054614	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Dalswinton Loch	DALSWINTON WWTW NX936852	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Barcloy Mill Burn	ROCKCLIFFE WWTW NX853532	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Water of Ken	DALRY STW WWTW 1990 NX622804	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Dee	CASTLE DOUGLAS WWTW 1939 NX760622	0	0	49.73
Scottish Water	Unknown	PORTPATRICK SEP 1994 NW997542	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ken	CROSSMICHAEL MARINA SEP NX730666	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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