Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale was polluted by sewage 1,742 times in 2023
lasting 28,392 hours - that's 3.29 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale in 2023

11 Sites polluted by Scottish Water, United Utilities

1,742 sewage dumps
28,392 h duration

That's 3.29 years! On average 4.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 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	Biggar Burn	BIGGAR WWTW 2002 NT049369	243	8,855	57.53
Scottish Water	River Nith	THORNHILL WWTW 1930 NX872950	328	6,945	73.42
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of River Nith	SANQUHAR WWTW NS782091	257	2,570	50
Scottish Water	River Annan	MOFFAT WWTW 1992 NT091044	114	2,038	95.89
Scottish Water	River Annan	CHAPELCROSS WWTW NY213692	97	1,825	49.73
Scottish Water	Lyne Water	WEST LINTON WWTW NT153506	64	1,593	99.45
Scottish Water	Douglas Water	DOUGLAS WWTW 1953 NS836311	197	1,321	95.34
Scottish Water	River Esk	LANGHOLM WWTW 1972 NY368840	33	1,153	45.62
Scottish Water	Muir Burn	COALBURN WWTW 1950 NS813356	130	947	96.44
United Utilities	River Ellen	DEARHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	119	726	100
Scottish Water	River Annan	ANNAN WWTW 1970 NY193651	160	415	100
Scottish Water	River Nith	KIRKCONNEL WWTW 1953 NS749116	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Esk	CANONBIE WWTW 2014 NY394773	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Lochar Water	COLLIN WWTW 1992 NY026757	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Pow Water	CARRUTHERSTOWN WWTW NY104718	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Tweed	PEEBLES WWTW NT270399	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Tweed	PEEBLES, WIREBRIDGE SPS PCSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Kirtle Water	GRETNA WWTW 1 1995 NY309664	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Solway Firth	EASTRIGGS WWTW 1 NY244651	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Tweed	WALKERBURN WWTW 1970 NT370375	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Kirtle Water	EAGLESFIELD WWTW NY236743	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Wanlock Water	WANLOCKHEAD WWTW 1992 NS861138	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Mein Water	ECCLEFECHAN WWTW 1975 NY200743	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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