Midlothian was polluted by sewage 54 times in 2023
lasting 2,469 hours

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Totals for Midlothian in 2023
2 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
54 sewage dumps
2,469 h duration
That's 3.43 months. 1 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Waterways in Midlothian

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Midlothian 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 0 of the total 2 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water Shiel Burn ROSEWELL WWTW NT293623 26 1,296 99.45
Scottish Water Gore Water GOREBRIDGE WWTW 1960 NT344612 28 1,172 84.93

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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