Motherwell and Wishaw was polluted by sewage 458 times in 2023
lasting 2,553 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Motherwell and Wishaw in 2023
2 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
458 sewage dumps
2,553 h duration
That's 3.55 months. On average 1.3 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Motherwell and Wishaw 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 12 of the total 14 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 12 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water River Clyde CARBARNS WWTW 1973 NS773539 349 2,357 95.34
Scottish Water South Calder Water COURSINGTON WWTW 1968 NS758577 109 195 85.75
Scottish Water Un-named tributary of River Clyde OVERTON, OVERTON STW CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water unamed trib. Legbrannock Burn HOLYTOWN CYPRESS ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Temple Gill WISHAW, R/O 49 GALA CRES CSO NS792560 0 0 0
Scottish Water Whinny Burn MOTHERWELL SHIELDS GLEN PRK NS768555 0 0 0
Scottish Water Temple Gill WISHAW R/O 51-57 MELROSE CR CSO NS792561 0 0 0
Scottish Water South Calder Water BELLSHILL, R/O 70 GLENCALDER CRES PCSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Un-named tributary of Auchter Water WISHAW, 110M R/O 421 CAMBUSNETHAN ST CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Unknown MOTHERWELL SHIELDS GLEN PRK NS768555 0 0 0
Scottish Water South Calder Water MOTHERWELL, ADJ 210 FIFE DRIVE PCSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Hall Gill / Gowkthrapple Burn WISHAW GOWKTHRAPPLE AT NURSERY CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water South Calder Water WISHAW PLAYING FIELD PCSO NS795566 0 0 0
Scottish Water Dalzell Burn SHIELDS DRIVE CSO 2008 NS765552 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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