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Alyn and Deeside

Polluted by sewage 859 times in 2025 lasting 3,797 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Alyn and Deeside in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,737 hours of sewage overflows, from 56 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Alyn and Deeside in 2025

45 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
859 sewage dumps
3,797 hours duration
That's 5.27 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Alyn and Deeside 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 1 of the total 57 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Balderton Brook SANDY LANE SPS CELYN CRESCENT SALTN 93 562 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Foundry Drain PADESWOOD ROAD STORM TANK CSO 47 386 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Higher Ferry Drain BRETTON PS 34 305 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Byr Brook Pont y Bodkin Lower PS 17 272 31.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Ashgrove PS Shotton 55 212 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Brook, Brad Brook Penyffordd Terminal SPS 34 200 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pandy Brook,Tidal Dee FLINT WWTW 21 168 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Broughton Brook Dobshill SPS 22 165 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dee Estuary FLINT BARDYN PS , , 77 153 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Un-Named Of Broughton Br Lower Farm CSO, Drury 55 138 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed W/C FLINT IN GARDEN 102 MAES GWYN 69 135 96.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Brook TY GWYN WWTW BUCKLEY 18 127 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Queensferry Ditch MANCOT LANE CSO 15 113 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Broughton Brook HAWARDEN WOOD LANE CSO 33 109 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Estuary QUEENSFERRY WWTW 13 98 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Manor Drain GARDEN CITY BRITISH LEGION - CSO 13 92 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Higher Kinnerton SPS 14 89 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Golftyn Brook Connahs Quay Golftyn PS CSO/Storm 17 69 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dee Estuary BAGILLT WEST SPS BAGILLT 20 50 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Un-Named Of Byr Brook Treuddyn Wastewater Treatment Works 14 46 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dee Estuary BAGILLT EAST SPS 9 45 95.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pentre Ffwrdan Stream Flint Mountain SPS 11 42 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn CAERGWRLE - RHYDDYN HILL ROAD CSO 13 36 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Alyn CEFN Y BEDD GWERN ALYN SPS 34 36 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dee FLINT DEE COTTAGES PS 19 36 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wepre Brook Connah's Quay Wepre PS 12 16 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wepre Brook Buckley (The Willows) SPS 5 15 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pentre Ffwrndan Drain Oakenholt Main SPS 2 15 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water New Inn Brook BUCKLEY LIVERPOOL ROAD - SSO 10 10 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CONNAHS QUAY DEVA AVENUE - CSO 13 9 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cegidog CYMAU PUMPING STATION/CSO 8 6 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sandycroft Drain Factory Road CSO, Sandycroft 5 6 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed W/C BAGILLT GREENACRE DRIVE - SSO 9 5 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed W/C BAGILLT STATION ROAD - SSO 5 5 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse Flowing To River Dee Cestrian St CSO 5 3 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bretton Drain BRETTON PS 1 3 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Kelsterton Brook KELSTERTON PUMP STN. , , 5 3 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Alltami Brook BUCKLEY SOUTHDOWN PARK PS 1 2 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Broughton Brook Sandycroft Phoenix Street CSO 1 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse Bagillt verge off Manor Drive CSO 3 0 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn HOPE SARN LANE CSO 3 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Byr Brook Pont Y Bodkin Main SPS 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Alyn CAERGWRLE DERBY ROAD - SSO 1 0 61.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Connahs Quay Dock Road PS 1 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pulford Brook Powys Caer Estyn PS 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed W/C BAGILLT TYDDYN MESHAM LANE - SSO 0 0 78.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Stream To River Dee BOOT & SHIP PS , , 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wepre Brook CONNAHS QUAY LOW LEVEL SPS STORM 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Connahs Quay Linden Avenue - CSO 0 0 88.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swinchiard Brook FLINT STW (THE MEADOWS) , , 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cegidog Ffrith SPS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Not Permitted Flint Castle No1 SPS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pentre Drain HAWARDEN CROSS TREE LANE - SSO 0 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Alyn HOPE WwTW 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse MERLLYN LANE BAGILLT 0 0 96
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Brook Via Surface Water Drain Pen Y Ffordd West View SPS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Balderton Brook Saltney Bridge Street CSO 0 0 99.6

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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