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Airdrie and Shotts was polluted by sewage 497 times in 2023
lasting 8,319 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Airdrie and Shotts in 2023

4 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

497 sewage dumps
8,319 h duration

That's 11.55 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Airdrie and Shotts

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Airdrie and Shotts in 2023. 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 13 of the total 17 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 13 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Shotts Burn	SALSBURGH WWTW 1950 NS824631	301	4,236	100
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	SHOTTS WWTW 1938 NS866594	156	4,018	99.45
Scottish Water	North Burn	AIRDRIE, WHINHALL RD/BURNFOOT RD CSO	37	60	100
Scottish Water	Kennel Burn	CHAPELHALL, KENNELBURN ROAD CSO 2008 NS774625	3	3	89.86
Scottish Water	unamed trib. Legbrannock Burn	HOLYTOWN CYPRESS ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of Auchter Water	WISHAW, 110M R/O 421 CAMBUSNETHAN ST CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Calder Water	AIRDRIE, NW OF MONKLAND BRIDGE CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Thankerton Burn	HOLYTOWN, 29 STEVENSTON ST/SHIRREL RD	0	0	0
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	ALLANTON, SW OF 7 BOWHOUSEBOG RD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Burginsholm Burn	AIRDRIE, MILL ROAD/ELECT SUB STN CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	How Burn	HARTHILL WWTW 1989 NS908648	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Burn (culverted)	67 SOUTH COMMONHEAD CSO 2009 NS766664	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Calder Water	AIRDRIE, OPP 35 ETIVE DRIVE CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	NEWMAINS, TRACK OFF WESTWOOD ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cameron Burn	GREENGAIRS WWTW 1930 NS781702	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Calder Water	PLAINS WWTW 1960 NS797664	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unnamed tributary of North Burn	AIRDRIE LOMOND DRIVE CSO 2009 NS755665	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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