Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Polluted by sewage 631 times in 2024 lasting 15,431 hours - That's 1.79 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in 2025

So far this year (as of Nov 3, 2025, 1:45 PM) there has been 377 hours of sewage overflows, from 1 CSOs

Totals for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in 2024

13 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
631 sewage dumps
15,431 hours duration
That's 1.79 years! On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 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 constituency 12 of the total 26 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 12 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water River Tweed MELROSE WWTW SSSO 36 5,007 99.45
Scottish Water Leader Water LAUDER WWTW SSSO 49 4,837 96.71
Scottish Water Teviot Water DENHOLM WWTW SSSO 42 1,948 97.26
Scottish Water River Tweed KELSO WWTW SSSO 109 941 98.36
Scottish Water River Teviot HAWICK WWTW - STORM TANKS SSSO 113 934 100.27
Scottish Water Liddel Water NEWCASTLETON WWTW SSSO 67 775 99.45
Scottish Water River Tweed GALASHIELS WWTW - 3DWF POST-PSTs SSSO 147 686 100.27
Scottish Water Ettrick Water SELKIRK WWTW - NO2 (UPPER INLET) CSO 12 86 100.27
Scottish Water Whiteadder Water CHIRNSIDE WWTW SSSO 13 81 99.45
Scottish Water River Teviot HAWICK WWTW 1930 NT512155 9 71 100.27
Scottish Water Liddel Water NEWCASTLETON WWTW (INLET) EO 7 29 99.45
Scottish Water River Teviot HAWICK, HAWICK STW CSO 22 20 100.27
Scottish Water Pirntaton Burn FOUNTAINHALL WWTW CSO 5 11 100.27
Scottish Water Ettrick Water SELKIRK WWTW - NO1 (LOWER INLET) CSO 0 0 100.27
Scottish Water River Tweed MELROSE, ANNAY RD/WOODYARD NO1 CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Blackadder Water DUNS WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Teviot Water JEDBURGH WWTW 6DWF INLET CSO AND EO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Leader Water EARLSTON WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Tweed NEWTOWN ST BOSWELLS WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Teviot HAWICK, WEENSLAND SYPHON CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water North Sea EYEMOUTH WWTW SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Tweed COLDSTREAM WWTW CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water River Tweed KELSO, OP TWEEDBANK COT/BULLET LOAN PCSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Blackadder Water DUNS WWTW POST PST SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Ettrick Water SELKIRK WWTW STORM TANK SSSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Teviot Water JEDBURGH WWTW STORM TANK 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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