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Aberafan Maesteg

Polluted by sewage 2,625 times in 2025 lasting 16,407 hours - That's 1.9 years!

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Live data for Aberafan Maesteg in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 7,318 hours of sewage overflows, from 59 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Aberafan Maesteg in 2025

50 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
2,625 sewage dumps
16,407 hours duration
That's 1.9 years. On average 7.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Aberafan Maesteg in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi LLETTY BRONGU STW LLANGYNWYD MAESTG 130 2,015 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Kenfig Marlas STW SPS 70 1,080 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Abercregan PS 64 1,065 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay AFAN WWTW 74 968 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Maesteg South CSO Asset 95015 107 794 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi 27 Talbot Street CSO, Maesteg 132 700 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi SPELTER CSO ASSET 52423 78 699 94.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO No. 109 at Cymmer SPS 123 657 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni CAERAU STH CSO ASSET 52420 MAESTEG 49 648 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llynfi River CSO Greenfield Street 135 635 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Cwmafan RFC CSO 65 605 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi CAERAU ROAD CSO ASSET 52427 MAESTEG 50 583 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO 101 THE WAUN 200M U/S FOOTBRIDGE 91 564 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Twlc CSO HEOL FAEN GARTH (POINT 22) 113 537 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cwm-Clais CSO at rear of Ynys Y Wern 85 480 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi CSO STH OF GREENFIELD TERRACE PONT 90 473 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Pelenna CSO No 110 Tonmawr 92 462 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 104 NEWBRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STAT 43 414 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ffrwd Wyllt CSO No 134 Goytre Bryn Afan 100 352 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Hermon Road CSO Asset 52425 Maesteg 81 330 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO at O/S 54 YNYS STREET 54 304 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Corrwg CSO 129 Glyncorrwg CSO Glyncorrwg 73 286 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Croeserw Brook CSO 122 18 DUKE STREET AFAN 34 212 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ffrwd Wyllt GLANDYRRRYN CLOSE CSO PORT TALBOT 35 191 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi CSO Caerau Square (Point 10) 87 187 82.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi SLAUGHTER HOUSE CSO ASSET 52415 41 154 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO No 115 Scotts Yard Cwmafan 53 145 96.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay AFAN WWTW PHOENIX WHARF HARBOUR RD 21 138 75.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Britannia Inn CSO, Cwmafan 47 126 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Pelenna CSO 103 Under R'Dbr Pontrhydyfen 59 103 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Duffryn CSO 30 95 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO NO 126 MOORS ST CULVERT AFAN 38 83 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO 107 Below Alder Terrace Afan 42 78 97.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay ABBEY SPS BRITISH STEEL SITE 10 39 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Twlc CSO at Bridgend Road Garth (Point 23) 39 39 97.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Church Street CSO, Maesteg 23 25 80.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Neath Estuary GIANTS GRAVE SPS PILL TERRACE 11 20 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Via Surface Water Sewer Castle Street CSO 16 20 96.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Afan St CSO 27 16 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO 108 REAR 16 MARGAM ST CYMMER 27 14 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynffig Via Surface Water Sewer Hazel Grove SPS 5 14 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Blaengwnfi Stormwater Overflow Cham 16 12 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Pontrhydyfen Road Bridge CSO 19 7 97.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi CSO Cwmfelin (Point 26) 14 5 77.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Pelenna CSO 117 Playground 3 Morgan Trce 5 5 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi CSO at Maesteg Market (Point 18) 17 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Via Culvert Heol Y Llwyni CSO 6 2 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Neath Estuary BRITON FERRY SPS INNER DOCK NEATH 2 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Kenfig/Sea Via Sker Surface Water Sewer HEOL FACH CSO NORTH CORNELLY 1 0 77.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Fach Lon-Y-Caridan CSO 1 0 96.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Arnallt Brook CSO 123 MARGAM PS NR BROMBILL ST 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Neath Estuary GEORGES ROW SPS GEORGES ROW NEATH 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sea Via Sker Outfall GREEN ACRES PS SOUTH CLOVELLY 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi HEARTS OF OAK COTTAGES (STORM) MA 0 0 83.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sea Via Sker Surface Water Sewer South Cornelly Green Avres PS 0 0 99.9

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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