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Polluted by sewage 204 times in 2024 lasting 1,450 hours
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 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 16 of the total 19 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 15 had zero reporting.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottish Water | Un-named tributary of Dornoch Firth | TAIN WWTW CSO 2010 NH778828 | 63 | 898 | 99.45 |
| Scottish Water | Moray Firth | BALINTORE WWTW CSO NH862759 | 129 | 430 | 75.34 |
| Scottish Water | Cambuscurrie Bay | EDDERTON WWTW CSO | 8 | 89 | 99.45 |
| Scottish Water | Beauly Firth | CRAIGTON WWPS EO NH661478 | 4 | 32 | 32.05 |
| Scottish Water | Cromarty Firth | ALNESS AND INVERGORDON STW SSSO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA CROSSROADS WWPS 6 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA GHLAS WWPS 7 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA HOTEL WWPS 2 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA ISLEVIEW WWPS 1 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA MORA WWPS 8 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA ORMISCAIG WWPS 4 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA PIER WWPS 3 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Loch Ewe | AULTBEA SLIPWAY WWPS 5 CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Moray Firth | GOLSPIE SHORE ST CAR PARK CSO NH831998 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Thrumster Burn | THRUMSTER WWTW CSO ND333453 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Wick River | WATTEN WWTW CSO ND245547 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Wick River | WICK SCALESBURN SPS CSO ND368509 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Wick River | WICK VICTORIA PLACE CSO SPS ND363508 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Water | Moray Firth | WICK WWTW CSO AND EO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API
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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