Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke

Polluted by sewage 802 times in 2024 lasting 4,391 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke in 2024

6 Sites polluted by Scottish Water

802 sewage dumps

4,391 hours duration

That's 6.1 months. On average 2.2 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke 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 10 of the total 14 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 8 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Scottish Water	River Clyde	WISHAW CARBARNS STW SSSO AFTER PST CSO	166	1,374	100.27
Scottish Water	River Clyde	MAULDSLIE WWTW - SSSO	78	1,247	30.96
Scottish Water	River Clyde	WISHAW CARBARNS STW INLET CSO	154	647	100.27
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	WISHAW PLAYING FIELD PCSO NS795566	222	598	100
Scottish Water	River Clyde	CARLUKE, MAULDSLIE STW AFTER SCREENS CSO	67	263	30.96
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	COURSINGTON WWTW CSO	115	259	100.27
Scottish Water	Dalzell Burn	SHIELDS DRIVE CSO 2008 NS765552	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Un-named tributary of River Clyde	OVERTON, OVERTON STW CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	South Calder Water	MOTHERWELL, ADJ 210 FIFE DRIVE PCSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Temple Gill	WISHAW R/O 51-57 MELROSE CR CSO NS792561	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Whinny Burn	MOTHERWELL SHIELDS GLEN PRK NS768555	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Garrion Burn	LAW, 200M SOUTH OF GARRIONGILL CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Hall Gill / Gowkthrapple Burn	WISHAW GOWKTHRAPPLE AT NURSERY CSO	0	0	0
Scottish Water	Temple Gill	WISHAW, R/O 49 GALA CRES CSO NS792560	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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke Polluted by sewage 802 times in 2024 lasting 4,391 hours Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke