Forth Estuary polluted by sewage 394 times in 2024 - lasting 3,435 hours

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Totals for Forth Estuary in 2024
3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
394 sewage dumps
3,435 h duration
That's 4.77 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Forth Estuary in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water Forth Estuary IRON MILL BAY WWTW-STORM T1 SSSO AND EO 323 2,045 100.27
Scottish Water Forth Estuary IRON MILL BAY WWTW-STORM T2 SSSO AND EO 66 1,357 100.27
Scottish Water Forth Estuary IRON MILL BAY WWTW INLET CSO NT061843 5 32 100.27
Scottish Water Forth Estuary AIRTH WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Forth Estuary AIRTH WWTW CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Forth Estuary KINCARDINE WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Forth Estuary DUNFERMLINE WWTW SSSO 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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