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River Nith polluted by sewage 651 times in 2023 - lasting 7,729 hours

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Totals for River Nith in 2023
3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
651 sewage dumps
7,729 h duration
That's 10.73 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Nith 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 River Nith THORNHILL WWTW 1930 NX872950 328 6,945 73.42
Scottish Water River Nith TROQUEER WWTW 1950 NX971745 170 427 100
Scottish Water River Nith TROQUEER WWTP CSO 153 356 100
Scottish Water River Nith NEW CUMNOCK WWTW NS622140 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Nith KIRKCONNEL WWTW 1953 NS749116 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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