Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe was polluted by sewage 6,829 times in 2023
lasting 63,310 hours - that's 7.33 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe in 2023
102 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
6,829 sewage dumps
63,310 h duration
That's 7.33 years! On average 18.7 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe 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 3 of the total 108 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe TREBANOS Wastewater Treament Works 208 4,059 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Irfon LLANWRTYD WELLS CSO ON TRUNK SEWER 177 3,290 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Settled Storm Sewage from Ystradgynlais WwTW 169 3,264 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cammarch Beulah SPS Beulah Powys 211 3,125 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Mellte CSO at Pontneddfechan STW Swansea 213 2,625 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Culverted, River Tawe CSO 4 Opposite Lamb & Flag Cottages 185 2,520 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Rear of Lonlas Station Road Abercrave 253 2,110 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Irfon Abernant Lake CSO 149 1,967 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Rear of Canal Cottage CSO, Abercrave 152 1,883 96.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Sennybridge Wastewater Treatment Works Storm Sewage Overflow 151 1,777 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Settled Storm Sewage from Brecon Wastewater Treatment Works 87 1,745 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Right Bank Of River Twrch CSO on A4068 above Lower Brunorgan Bridge 131 1,708 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Builthwells WWTW CSO 134 1,661 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Garnant GCG - D/S of Graig Road CSO 100 1,648 35
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon CROSSGATES STW 103 1,605 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Logyn Trecastle STW Settled Storm 85 1,603 26.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Chwefru CSO at Cilmery STW 134 1,418 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Craig Y Duke Trebanos SOC 147 1,288 77.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon Llanddewi Toll House 100 1,106 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CSO at BWLCH SOUTH WwTW 129 1,086 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon Llandrindod Wells STW Park Lane Settled Storm 98 1,032 91.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Garnant CSO 27 BOUNDARY RD BRIDGE GARNANT 91 1,011 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Ynysmeudw Warehouse (SOC 109 906 95
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Upper Clydach CSO at Dilwyn Arms Pontardawe Cross NPT 131 880 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Howey Brook Howey SPS 86 858 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon PENYBONT P.S. 55 831 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at O/S 17 Glantawe Row Ystradgynlais 127 787 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Helen STATION RD GWYNFRYNLEN CSO 86 779 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg LLANGUNLLO STW PS 52 725 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Nr Gough Arms MH CSO 117 639 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Irfon River LLANWRTYD WELLS STW LLANWRTYD WELLS 29 603 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Caerfanell Talybont Sewage Treatment Works Settled Storm 64 535 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Storm Tanks at Rhayader STW 78 525 93.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon CSO OPPOSITE LODORE 104 504 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BRECON STW BRECON WWTW BRECON POWYS 25 489 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water U Nant Llech Colbren PS 1 Emerg 101 479 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Crickhowell Settled Storm at STW 85 463 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pontardawe Leis Centre CSO Swansea 93 434 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Brecon Showfields CSO Brecon Powys 56 433 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon LLANDRINDOD WELLS STW PARK LANE 29 415 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Glasbury STW Glasbury Nr Hay On Wye 47 406 94.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Hir CSO at GCG - rear of 40 Ger yr Afon 90 360 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CHURCH LANE STW CHURCH ROAD 55 351 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Godre'r Graig SOC 20. Godre'r 40 351 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Garnant CSO 26 QUARRY PLACE AMMONFORD 48 339 75.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Henllan Brook CSO at Llanelwedd Primary School Bridge 48 336 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Upper Clydach River JAMES STREET CSO 155 322 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg CSO at Presteigne - O/S SPS Tanyard 52 294 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Irfon Cefn Gorwydd Wastewater Treatment Works 61 289 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Ddu Cray Sewage Treatment Works 30 283 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Talgarth STW Settled Storm 14 263 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye The Strand CSO, Church Street, Builth Wells 68 261 93.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tregoyd Brook Three Cocks Aberllynfi SPS 43 250 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Rhayader WwTW 79 248 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 12 B4599 Road Bridge 76 244 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Hay-on-Wye (Main) SPS 95 240 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Irfon Dolwen Fields CSO 76 215 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Amman CSO 22 SW CORNER OF DISUSED TIP 35 200 33.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe SWN YR AFON CSO, Ystradgynlais 74 200 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at MH 92 nr Claypon Bridge, Ystradgynlais 39 190 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Menascin 100 YARDS D/S OF LLANFRYNACH STW 27 187 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO M'HOLE 14 ABERCRAVE ST.DAVIDS C 63 184 51
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk SPS at Brecon - Watton 10 Metres South Of 84 179 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Legar CSO 75 153 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Irfon Llangammarch Wells STW CSO Ejector 29 150 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Office Row Car Park Ystalyfera CSO 51 146 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Trefecca Old Railway CSO, Maesgwyn 29 141 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llynfi River TALGARTH STW BRONLLYS ROAD TALGARTH 17 138 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Twrch CSO 21 BRIDGE STREET 26 137 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Gyrlais CSO 10 Rear Of Waun Gyrlais Penrhos 60 133 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse Bronllys Rear of garage A479 70 128 97.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk GARN PS CRICKHOWELL 47 108 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Caerfanell Talybont Across from Cattle Market CSO 12 106 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Llyswen STW Settled Storm 25 91 91.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Newbridge on Wye STW 40 91 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Mason Arms, Ystradgynlais 26 83 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Llangynidr (Coed-yr-Ynys) SPS 38 82 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe SWO.M'HOLE12 CWMTAWE FM PENRHOS 19 75 76.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Gelli-Nedd CSO ADJ 97 CRAIG RD GELLINUDD 30 69 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon CSO at RIDGEBOURNE CATCHMENT AREA LLANDRI 41 64 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Glasbury STW Glasbury Nr Hay On Wye 7 62 94.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pontardawe 2 To R Tawe CSO Swansea 16 45 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg PRESTEIGNE STW CLATTERBROOM 10 45 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Rhayader Fields St. Brides Church 11 41 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg Settled Storm Sewage from Presteigne WwTW 9 35 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Llynfell SWO.M'HOLE 154A GEORGE IV PH UPPER CSO 17 23 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BRECON SEWERAGE SYSTEM 10 20 17
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL CSO 13 18 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO Llanelwedd - Scout Hut Station Road 3 17 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye North Road CSO North Rd Builth Well 11 13 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL - BRIDGE END CAR P 4 12 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Felindre Brook Three Cocks 2 11 60.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Usk River SENNYBRIDGE STW 7 7 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon CSO at Ithon Road, Llandrindod Wells 7 7 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Irfon LLANGAMMARCH WELLS STW 1 5 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Crickhowell - Bullpit Meadow S CSO 10 3 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ennig CSO at Talgarth o/s Autumn lodge 3 2 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Llechau CSO Near Delffordd 8 2 94.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Brynawel Estate, Trecastle CSO 7 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Via Surface Water Sewer Brecon Supermarket CSO 3 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Grywne Fawr CWRT Y GOLLEN SPS CRICKHOWELL 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Bridge St CSO 1 0 7.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Senni Brodawel - Sennybridge 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ithon Llanyre STW Settled Storm 0 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg Tanyard Pumping Station CSO/EO 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi A479 Bronlly Road CSO 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Weun Chapel Park Toilets, Rhayader 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Hay-on-Wye (Warren Close) SPS 0 0 100

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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