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Perth and Kinross-shire was polluted by sewage 436 times in 2023
lasting 8,074 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 Perth and Kinross-shire in 2023

5 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

436 sewage dumps
8,074 h duration

That's 11.21 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Perth and Kinross-shire

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Perth and Kinross-shire 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 4 of the total 10 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 4 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	River Tay	PERTH CITY WWTW 1971 NO147221	133	4,427	100
Scottish Water	Tributary of Loch Leven	KINROSS WWTW 1980 NO126031	107	1,629	88.49
Scottish Water	River Almond	ALMONDBANK WWTW 1963 NO069256	131	864	99.73
Scottish Water	River Earn	FORGANDENNY WWTW 1959 NO094191	43	755	74.25
Scottish Water	River Earn	ST FILLANS WWTW 1971 NN705235	22	396	84.11
Scottish Water	River Tay	SCONE WWTW 1952 NO119253	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Earn	COMRIE WWTW 1986 NN788216	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of Cadger Burn	BLAIRINGONE WWTW NS984967	0	0	94.25
Scottish Water	East Pow	METHVEN WWTW 1932 NO018252	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Queich River	MILNATHORT WWTW 1995 NO129040	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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