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Paisley and Renfrewshire South was polluted by sewage 186 times in 2023
lasting 1,579 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Paisley and Renfrewshire South in 2023

6 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

186 sewage dumps
1,579 h duration

That's 2.19 months. 3.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Paisley and Renfrewshire South

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Paisley and Renfrewshire South 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 10 of the total 18 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 10 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	Black Cart Water	BURNBRAE ROAD PS CSO 2009 NS438638	98	837	99.73
Scottish Water	Black Cart Water	LINWOOD SPS CSO/EO	19	582	97.81
Scottish Water	Old Patrick Water	ELDERSLIE OPW CSO 4 2009 NS443631	50	79	100
Scottish Water	River Gryfe	HOUSTON, AUCHANS ROAD SPS EO	7	44	51.23
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of Black Cart Water	ELLISTON WWPS 1996 NS395603	8	26	100
Scottish Water	Brookfield Burn (Trib of Locher Water)	BROOKFIELD, BROOKFIELD CSO	4	10	98.36
Scottish Water	Candren Burn	PAISLEY, FERGUSLIE PARK CSO NO1 NS460635	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Black Cart Water	GAS STREET CSO EO 2009 NS431635	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of Black Cart Water	TORBRACHEN SST	0	0	0
Scottish Water	White Cart Water	PAISLEY, 160 HAWKHEAD ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	White Cart Water	BLACKHALL SYPHON CSO 2012 NS495630	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Black Cart Water	RIVERSIDE SPS	0	0	99.18
Scottish Water	Craigbog Burn	JOHNSTONE, 1 LINN PARK GARDENS CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Old Patrick Water	WALLACE AVE ELDERSLIE CSO NS445628	0	0	0
Scottish Water	White Cart Water	CAIRNHILL CIRCUS CSO 2012 NS516632	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Black Cart Water	LADESIDE DRIVE CSO 2009 NS418627	0	0	0
Scottish Water	White Cart Water	PAISLEY, 158 HAWKHEAD ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of Craigbog Burn	PARK RD. P.S.S. JOHNSTONE	0	0	99.18

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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