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Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey was polluted by sewage 244 times in 2023
lasting 1,555 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey in 2023
6 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
244 sewage dumps
1,555 h duration
That's 2.16 months. 4.7 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey 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 13 of the total 19 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 13 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water River Nairn PIPERHILL WWPS NH868514 23 464 90.14
Scottish Water River Spey NEWTONMORE WWTW 2009 NN724994 10 396 95.62
Scottish Water Moray Firth NAIRN WWTW 1960 NH896534 95 295 100
Scottish Water Moray Firth LOSSIEMOUTH, SHORE STREET CSO 75 246 98.08
Scottish Water Findhorn Bay - via tidal reaches of the Mosset Burn FORRES WWTW 1973 NJ038595 12 132 25.07
Scottish Water River Spey BOAT OF GARTEN WWTW 2015 NH946191 29 19 95.62
Scottish Water Moray Firth HOPEMAN HARBOUR WWPS 1979 NJ145699 0 0 0
Scottish Water Spynie Canal LOSSIEMOUTH, 4 SEATOWN ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Spey AVIEMORE DALFABER CSO 2005 NH904130 0 0 0
Scottish Water Unknown LOSSIE, PITGAVENY ST SPS 2003 NJ238708 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Spey KINCRAIG WWPS CSO 1985 NH835058 0 0 0
Scottish Water Milton Burn AVIEMORE WEST WWPS 1985 NH894132 0 0 0
Scottish Water Moray Firth LOSSIEMOUTH, SHORE ST SPS CSO/EO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Moray Firth BURGHEAD, HARBOUR-GRANARY SPS NJ109691 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Nethy NETHY BRIDGE WWTW 2005 NH999209 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Spey AVIEMORE DALFABER WWPS NH904130 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Druie INVERDRUIE WWPS 2000 NH898115 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Spey FOCHABERS WWTW 1966 NJ341599 0 0 0
Scottish Water Moray Firth LOSSIEMOUTH, 3 CLIFTON ROAD 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.

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