Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke was polluted by sewage 928 times in 2023
lasting 5,850 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke in 2023

4 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

928 sewage dumps
5,850 h duration

That's 8.12 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke

Waterways in Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke 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 11 of the total 15 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 11 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	CARBARNS WWTW 1973 NS773539	349	2,357	95.34
Scottish Water	Mouse Water	FORTH WWTW 1950 NS947534	129	567	99.18
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	COURSINGTON WWTW 1968 NS758577	109	195	85.75
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	Dalzell Burn	SHIELDS DRIVE CSO 2008 NS765552	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Whinny Burn	MOTHERWELL SHIELDS GLEN PRK NS768555	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Garrion Burn	LAW, NEAR 43 WILDMAN ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Temple Gill	WISHAW R/O 51-57 MELROSE CR CSO NS792561	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Garrion Burn	LAW, 200M SOUTH OF GARRIONGILL CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	WISHAW PLAYING FIELD PCSO NS795566	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of River Clyde	OVERTON, OVERTON STW CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Temple Gill	WISHAW, R/O 49 GALA CRES CSO NS792560	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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