Lanark and Hamilton East was polluted by sewage 1,508 times in 2023
lasting 8,598 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Lanark and Hamilton East in 2023

6 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

1,508 sewage dumps
8,598 h duration

That's 11.94 months. On average 4.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Lanark and Hamilton East

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lanark and Hamilton East 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 16 of the total 24 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 16 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	River Clyde	MAULDSLIE WWTW 1938 NS809502	341	2,729	72.88
Scottish Water	River Clyde	BOTHWELLBANK WWTW 1947 NS698580	315	2,262	78.63
Scottish Water	Cander Water	STONEHOUSE WWTW 1928 NS764471	478	1,961	99.18
Scottish Water	River Clyde	HAMILTON WWTW NS712575	218	907	75.89
Scottish Water	Mouse Water	FORTH WWTW 1950 NS947534	129	567	99.18
Scottish Water	Wellshaw Burn	ABBOTSFORD AVENUE CSO NS708571	27	169	95.34
Scottish Water	River Clyde	LANARK WWTW 1995 NS872437	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Kitchen Burn	LARKHALL, 59 CHURCH ST CSO 2010 NS763509	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Tributary of Avon Water	LARKHALL, BIRKENSHAW SPS PCSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cadzow Burn	24 MEIKLE EARNOCK ROAD CSO 2010 NS715536	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Avon Water	LARKHALL, BRAEHEAD WWPS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Garrion Burn	LAW, NEAR 43 WILDMAN ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Skelly Gill	LARKHALL, O/S 81 LOW PLEASANCE CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Clyde	CARSTAIRS JUNCTION WWTW 1948 NS962451	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Skelly Gill	SKELLYTON STATION RD CSO 2005 NS765518	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Kitchen Burn	R/O 3 KARADALE GARDENS CSO NS761509	0	0	0
Scottish Water	River Clyde	FERNIEGAIR WWTW NS747542	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cadzow Burn	HAMILTON, CASTLE ST/EDINBURGH RD CSO	0	0	93.7
Scottish Water	River Nethan	BLACKWOOD WWTW 1950 NS805431	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cadzow Burn	WESTWOOD CRESCENT CSO 2009 NS711545	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cadzow Burn	HAMILTON, GRAMMAR SCHOOL PLAYING FIELDS	0	0	100
Scottish Water	Skelly Gill	LARKHALL ALBANY WYND CSO 2008 NS768515	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cadzow Burn	AUCHINGRAMONT RD CSO 2010 NS722556	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Garrion Burn	LAW, 200M SOUTH OF GARRIONGILL CSO	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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