Orkney and Shetland

Polluted by sewage 705 times in 2024 lasting 3,407 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Orkney and Shetland in 2024

3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

705 sewage dumps

3,407 hours duration

That's 4.73 months. On average 1.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Orkney and Shetland 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 3 of the total 6 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 3 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	The String	KIRKWALL (HOW) WWTW SSSO CSO HY475137	283	1,948	93.15
Scottish Water	Bay of Firth	FINSTOWN HEDDLE ROAD PS CSO	393	1,051	100.27
Scottish Water	Lerwick Harbour	LERWICK ROVAHEAD WWTW EO CSO HU469448	29	407	100.27
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS FERRY ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS NAVIGATION SCHOOL SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS SOUTH END 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. 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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