Scottish Water to install 1,000 sewage monitors as quality concerns rise
Managers at Scottish Water have pledged to install 1,000 more pollution monitors across Scotland to help clean up rivers and beaches.
The promise was made after protests by marine campaigners that sewage was being discharged into bathing waters through unmonitored storm overflows.
Professor Simon Parsons, a Scottish Water scientist, told BBC Scotland that the company accepted that the discharges from only 4 per cent of storm overflows were checked but that was about to change.
By the end of next year another 1,000 monitors would be put in place to cover a third of the country’s 3,617 overflows. “This will be the first step in getting the intelligence we need to understand how our network works,” he said.
Surfers Against Sewage held a protest at
