Rutherglen and Hamilton West was polluted by sewage 6 times in 2023
lasting 7 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in 2023
1 Sites polluted by Scottish Water
6 sewage dumps
7 h duration
That's 0.29 days. 0.5 times a month, over the year
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rutherglen and Hamilton West 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 13 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 Cityford Burn NO 16 QUARRYKNOWE CSO 2009 NS608619 6 7 100
Scottish Water Light Burn CAMBUSLANG, 24 ALDER GATE CSO 0 0 99.18
Scottish Water Park Burn 48 PARK BURN COURT CSO NS701569 0 0 0
Scottish Water Light Burn 412 HAMILTON ROAD CSO 2008 NS661595 0 0 0
Scottish Water Newton Burn HALLSIDE SPS CSO NS663605 0 0 0
Scottish Water Cadzow Burn 75A MEIKLE EARNOCK RD CSO 2009 NS713534 0 0 0
Scottish Water Light Burn 31 ALDER GATE CSO 2008 NS662601 0 0 0
Scottish Water Wellshaw Burn MILLERPARK WELLHALL BRIDGE CSO NS708554 0 0 0
Scottish Water Wellshaw Burn HAMILTON, R/O 17 MILTON TERRACE CSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Wellshaw Burn HAM'TON, POLLOK AVE/BEATTOCK WYND PCSO 0 0 0
Scottish Water Earnock Burn R/O 52 WOODFOOT ROAD CSO NS705547 0 0 0
Scottish Water Wellshaw Burn CAMPSIE VIEW CSO 2010 NS695545 0 0 0
Scottish Water Park Burn HAMILTON, HILLHOUSE RD/BRANKHOLM BRAE 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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