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Paisley and Renfrewshire North was polluted by sewage 261 times in 2023
lasting 2,985 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Paisley and Renfrewshire North in 2023

3 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

261 sewage dumps
2,985 h duration

That's 4.15 months. 5 times a week, on average

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Waterways in Paisley and Renfrewshire North

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Paisley and Renfrewshire North 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 1 of the total 4 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Clyde Estuary	ERSKINE WWTW NS494691	160	2,707	100
Scottish Water	White Cart Water	LAIGHPARK PAISLEY WWTW NS485655	67	192	100
Scottish Water	Clyde Estuary	ERSKINE, ERSKINE HOSPITAL CSO	34	85	80.55
Scottish Water	Craigton Burn	BISHOPTON NO 1 CSO STATION ROAD	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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