Orkney and Shetland was polluted by sewage 1,347 times in 2023
lasting 4,557 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Orkney and Shetland in 2023

3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

1,347 sewage dumps
4,557 h duration

That's 6.33 months. On average 3.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Orkney and Shetland

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Orkney and Shetland 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 7 of the total 10 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 7 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Bay of Firth	FINSTOWN HEDDLE ROAD PS CSO	1,053	2,480	100
Scottish Water	The String	KIRKWALL(HEAD OF WORK) STW 2003 HY475137 KIRKWALL WWTW 2003 HY475137	253	1,762	100
Scottish Water	Lerwick Harbour	LERWICK ROVAHEAD WWTW 2000 HU469448	41	314	100
Scottish Water	Hamnavoe	STROMNESS GARSON SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS GRAHAM PLACE SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS SOUTH END CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS FISHERMANS SOCIETY SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS NAVIGATION SCHOOL SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	St Margaret's Hope Bay	ST MARGARETS HOPE WWTW ND451938	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Stromness Harbour	STROMNESS FERRY 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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