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Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

Polluted by sewage 1,272 times in 2024 lasting 6,372 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire in 2024

12 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

1,272 sewage dumps

6,372 hours duration

That's 8.85 months. On average 3.5 times a day

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Waterways in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire 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 12 of the total 26 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 12 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM WWTW SSSO CSO NN108750	141	2,284	98.63
Scottish Water	Loch Carron	LOCHCARRON WWTW SSSO CSO NH882375	322	1,054	100.27
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM WWTW CSO NN108750	439	838	98.63
Scottish Water	Moray Firth	ALLANFEARN WWTW - STORM TANK SSSO	52	777	100.27
Scottish Water	Broadford Bay	BROADFORD PIER WWPS CSO NG643242	156	687	76.44
Scottish Water	River Nairn	SUNNYSIDE RS250 WWPS CSO 2010 NH762456	32	396	100.27
Scottish Water	Loch Nan Ceall	ARISAIG WWPS CSO NM661862	34	210	100.27
Scottish Water	Mill Burn	CULCABOCK KINGMILLS GARDENS CSO	47	38	70.68
Scottish Water	River Enrick	DRUMNADROCHIT WWTW CSO AND EO	11	31	100.27
Scottish Water	Inner Moray Firth	LONGMAN WWPS CSO	26	26	100.27
Scottish Water	River Foyers	FOYERS STW INLET CSO NH495210	6	21	99.45
Scottish Water	Mill Burn	HARBOUR ROAD WWPS CSO NH679458	6	4	80.27
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	CORPACH WWTW MAINCSO SSSO AND EO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM ASHBURN LN SPS CSO NN094732	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM WEST END CSO NN099736	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM WWTW NN108750	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Gairloch	GAIRLOCH CHARLESTON WWPS CSO NG810749	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Gairloch	GAIRLOCH LONEMORE WWPS CSO AND EO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Culnakirk Burn	GLENURQUHART WWPS CSO 2005 NH504303	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Ness	INVERNESS GLEBE STREET CSO	0	0	74.79
Scottish Water	River Ness	INVERNESS HUNTLY PLACE CSO	0	0	74.79
Scottish Water	Pladaig Bay	KYLE PLAYING FIELDS SEP CSO NM760276	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Leasgeary	PORTREE DUNVEGAN RD WWPS CSO NG474440	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Portree	PORTREE MAIN WWPS CSO 2006 NG480435	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Portree	PORTREE SHULISHADDER WWPS CSO NG479432	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Uig Bay, Loch Snizort	UIG PIER SEP CSO 2006 NG385636	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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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