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Shotton

Polluted by sewage 211 times in 2024 lasting 1,081 hours

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Totals for Shotton in 2024

6 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
211 sewage dumps
1,081 hours duration
That's 1.5 months. 4.1 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Shotton 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Ashgrove PS Shotton 87 442 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Queensferry Ditch MANCOT LANE CSO 38 302 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Un-Named Watercourse QUEENSFERRY STW (SETTLED STORM) 30 178 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Estuary QUEENSFERRY WWTW 9 72 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wepre Brook Connah's Quay Wepre PS 33 65 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse Flowing To River Dee Cestrian St CSO 14 21 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wepre Brook CONNAHS QUAY LOW LEVEL SPS STORM 0 0 99.8

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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