Airdrie and Shotts

Polluted by sewage 352 times in 2024 lasting 4,082 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Airdrie and Shotts in 2024

7 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

352 sewage dumps

4,082 hours duration

That's 5.67 months. 6.8 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Airdrie and Shotts in 2024. 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 12 of the total 19 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 11 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	SHOTTS WWTW (STORM) SSSO	125	3,160	99.45
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	SHOTTS WWTW (PRIMARY) SSSO	40	530	99.45
Scottish Water	Un-named Tributary of Legbrannock Burn	HOLYTOWN CYPRESS ROAD CSO	92	138	100.27
Scottish Water	Shotts Burn	SALSBURGH WWTW SSSO	4	122	5.21
Scottish Water	Thankerton Burn	HOLYTOWN, 29 STEVENSTON ST/SHIRREL RD	59	89	96.99
Scottish Water	North Burn	AIRDRIE, WHINHALL RD/BURNFOOT RD CSO	30	37	100.27
Scottish Water	Kennel Burn	KENNELBURN ROAD CSO 2008 NS774625	2	3	99.73
Scottish Water	North Calder Water	AIRDRIE, OPP 35 ETIVE DRIVE CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Unnamed tributary of North Burn	AIRDRIE LOMOND DRIVE CSO 2009 NS755665	0	0	97.26
Scottish Water	North Calder Water	AIRDRIE, NW OF MONKLAND BRIDGE CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	How Burn	HARTHILL WWTW SSSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Cameron Burn	GREENGAIRS WWTW SSSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Burn (culverted)	67 SOUTH COMMONHEAD CSO 2009 NS766664	0	0	0
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	NEWMAINS, TRACK OFF WESTWOOD ROAD CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of Auchter Water	WISHAW, 110M R/O 421 CAMBUSNETHAN ST CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Calder Water	PLAINS WWTW SSSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	How Burn	HARTHILL WWTW CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	North Burn	AIRDRIE, MILL ROAD/ELECT SUB STN CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	ALLANTON, SW OF 7 BOWHOUSEBOG RD CSO	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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Airdrie and Shotts Polluted by sewage 352 times in 2024 lasting 4,082 hours Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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