North Sea polluted by sewage 674 times in 2024 - lasting 2,972 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2024
7 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
674 sewage dumps
2,972 h duration
That's 4.13 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea 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 North Sea PETERHEAD WWTW - 3DWF LONG OUTFALL CSO 369 1,277 100.27
Scottish Water North Sea NIGG WWTW LONG SEA OUTFALL CSO 121 916 100.27
Scottish Water North Sea FRASERBURGH PFI CSO 2001 NJ973669 79 312 100.27
Scottish Water North Sea ST ANDREWS HARBOUR SPS CS0 NO516164 7 184 65.75
Scottish Water North Sea ABERDEEN GIRDLENESS CSO 38 119 100.27
Scottish Water North Sea ST. ANDREWS, BRUCE EMBANKMENT SPS CSO 44 103 94.52
Scottish Water North Sea PETERHEAD WWTW - SHORT OUTFALL CSO 16 57 93.7
Scottish Water North Sea NIGG WWTW EO 0 0 100.27
Scottish Water North Sea PETERHEAD, PETERHEAD SPS NO1 CSO/EO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea FRASERBURGH, LACKIE HEAD SPS CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea SANDEND, SEAVIEW ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea FRASERBURGH WWTW 2001 NJ973669 0 0 100.27
Scottish Water North Sea EYEMOUTH WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea KINGSBARNS WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea GOURDON CSO 2014 NO830708 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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