Ross, Skye and Lochaber was polluted by sewage 934 times in 2023
lasting 4,606 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Ross, Skye and Lochaber in 2023

4 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

934 sewage dumps
4,606 h duration

That's 6.4 months. On average 2.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Ross, Skye and Lochaber

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ross, Skye and Lochaber 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 23 of the total 27 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 23 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM WWTW NN108750	650	3,340	97.81
Scottish Water	Loch Carron	LOCHCARRON WWTW 2002 NG882375	253	1,107	98.63
Scottish Water	Broadford Bay	BROADFORD WWTW 1999 NG639242	28	156	92.05
Scottish Water	Beauly Firth	CRAIGTON WWPS EO NH661478	3	3	95.34
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA MORA WWPS 8 CSO NG842915	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA SLIPWAY WWPS 5 CSO NG854906	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA GHLAS WWPS 7 CSO NG848910	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA PIER WWPS 3 CSO NG866892	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Uig Bay, Loch Snizort	UIG PIER SEP CSO 2006 NG385636	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA HOTEL WWPS 2 CSO NG873890	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Portree	PORTREE SHULISHADDER WWPS CSO NG479432	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unknown	ARISAIG WWPS NM658859	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unknown	KYLE PLAYING FIELD SEP 1985 NG760276	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	CORPACH WWTW 1980 NN088767	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unknown	PORTREE MACERATOR EO CSO NG480435	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Moray Firth	FORTROSE WWTW NH731572	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Leasgeary	PORTREE DUNVEGAN RD WWPS CSO NG474440	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM WEST END CSO NN099736	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Leven	GLENCOE TRANSFER SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA ORMISCAIG WWPS 4 CSO NG862902	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA ISLEVIEW WWPS 1 CSO NG874886	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Sunart	STRONTIAN MAIN SEP 1970 NM813615	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unknown	GAIRLOCH CHARLESTON WWPS 2002 NG810749	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Ewe	AULTBEA CROSSROADS WWPS 6 CSO NG852909	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Spean	SPEAN BRIDGE WWTW 1998 NN232818	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Gairloch	GAIRLOCH LONEMORE WWPS NG787773	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Loch Linnhe	FORT WILLIAM ASHBURN LN SPS CSO NN094732	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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