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Rutherglen was polluted by sewage 321 times in 2023
lasting 2,270 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Rutherglen in 2023
2 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
321 sewage dumps
2,270 h duration
That's 3.15 months. 6.2 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rutherglen 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 4 of the total 7 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 4 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Scottish Water River Clyde BOTHWELLBANK WWTW 1947 NS698580 315 2,262 78.63
Scottish Water Cityford Burn NO 16 QUARRYKNOWE CSO 2009 NS608619 6 7 100
Scottish Water Light Burn 412 HAMILTON ROAD CSO 2008 NS661595 0 0 0
Scottish Water Park Burn 48 PARK BURN COURT CSO NS701569 0 0 0
Scottish Water Light Burn CAMBUSLANG, 24 ALDER GATE CSO 0 0 99.18
Scottish Water Light Burn 31 ALDER GATE CSO 2008 NS662601 0 0 0
Scottish Water Newton Burn HALLSIDE SPS CSO NS663605 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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