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Lothian East was polluted by sewage 326 times in 2023
lasting 3,142 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Lothian East in 2023

3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

326 sewage dumps
3,142 h duration

That's 4.36 months. 6.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Lothian East

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lothian East 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 5 of the total 8 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 5 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	River Tyne	HADDINGTON WWTW 1960 NT532744	107	2,001	69.59
Scottish Water	Sauchet Water	STENTON WWTW 2004 NT620744	80	912	89.59
Scottish Water	Firth of Forth	NORTH BERWICK WWTW NT566851	139	229	95.89
Scottish Water	Firth of Forth	PORT SETON, POND HALL SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Firth of Forth	GULLANE WWPS NT481833	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Firth of Forth	BELHAVEN, BELHAVEN SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Firth of Forth	GULLANE PUMP STATION CSO 2000 NT481833	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Firth of Forth	WEST BARNS, WEST BARNS SPS CSO	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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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