North Sea polluted by sewage 634 times in 2023 - lasting 4,999 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2023
6 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
634 sewage dumps
4,999 h duration
That's 6.94 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea in 2023. 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 PERSLEY WWTW NJ906098 49 1,613 100
Scottish Water North Sea NIGG WWTW NJ964046 193 1,208 100
Scottish Water North Sea ST ANDREWS HARBOUR SPS CSO NO516164 37 1,125 100
Scottish Water North Sea PETERHEAD WWTW NK127442 205 681 100
Scottish Water North Sea FRASERBURGH WWTW 2001 NJ973669 76 216 100
Scottish Water North Sea ST ANDREWS, BRUCE EMBANKMENT SPS 74 154 58.63
Scottish Water North Sea SANDEND, SEAVIEW ROAD CSO 0 0 0
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 EYEMOUTH WWTW 2002 NT951632 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea KINGSBARNS WWTW NO597123 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

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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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