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Alloa

Polluted by sewage 535 times in 2024 lasting 1,882 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Alloa in 2024

2 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
535 sewage dumps
1,882 hours duration
That's 2.61 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

Constituency for Alloa

Waterways in Alloa

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Alloa 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 place 1 of the total 3 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water Brothie Burn ALLOA WWTW - POST-PST2 SSSO 491 1,844 100.27
Scottish Water Brothie Burn ALLOA WWTW - POST-STORM TANK2 SSSO 44 37 100.27
Scottish Water Brothie Burn ALLOA, ALLOA STW 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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