Paisley and Renfrewshire North was polluted by sewage 336 times in 2023
lasting 4,041 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Paisley and Renfrewshire North in 2023
8 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
336 sewage dumps
4,041 h duration
That's 5.61 months. 6.5 times a week, on average
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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 10 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 Black Cart Water LINWOOD SPS CSO/EO 19 582 97.81
Scottish Water Un-named tributary of River Gryfe BRIDGE OF WEIR, LINTWHITE CSO 29 382 98.08
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 River Gryfe HOUSTON, AUCHANS ROAD SPS EO 7 44 51.23
Scottish Water Houston Burn HOUSTON, HOUSTON VILLAGE CSO NO1 16 36 91.78
Scottish Water Brookfield Burn (Trib of Locher Water) BROOKFIELD, BROOKFIELD CSO 4 10 98.36
Scottish Water Craigton Burn BISHOPTON NO 1 CSO STATION ROAD 0 0 0
Scottish Water Houston Burn HOUSTON, HOUSTON VILLAGE CSO NO2 0 0 99.73

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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