West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine was polluted by sewage 155 times in 2023
lasting 4,548 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine in 2023

7 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

155 sewage dumps
4,548 h duration

That's 6.32 months. 3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 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 6 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 6 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	River North Esk	LAURENCEKIRK WWTW 1950 NO706721	9	1,221	82.19
Scottish Water	Gormack Burn	ECHT WWTW 2014 NJ749056	56	953	49.86
Scottish Water	Woodston Burn	ST CYRUS WWPS CSO NO750652	47	901	100
Scottish Water	Balmaleedy Burn	MARYKIRK WWTW 1960 NO688653	3	613	74.25
Scottish Water	Lumphanan Burn	LUMPHANAN NEW WWTW 2005 NJ573033	17	470	98.08
Scottish Water	Cluny Burn	SAUCHEN WWTW 1994 NJ697113	7	347	98.9
Scottish Water	Burn of Cauldcots	FETTERCAIRN WWTW 1940 NO656729	16	41	33.15
Scottish Water	Luther Water	AUCHENBLAE, AUCHENBLAE SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Luther Water	LAURENCEKIRK WWTW 1950 NO706721	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Sea	GOURDON WWPS 2005 NO831712	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Sea	JOHNSHAVEN, BEACH ROAD SPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Dee	BANCHORY, GOLF COURSE SPS EO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Dee	BIRSEMORE WWTW 1972 NO536980	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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