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Bridgend

Polluted by sewage 508 times in 2025 lasting 2,907 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Bridgend in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 21:46) there has been 2,128 hours of sewage overflows, from 24 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bridgend in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
508 sewage dumps
2,907 hours duration
That's 4.04 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bridgend 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 2 of the total 18 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. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogwry PENY BONT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 87 1,422 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Iorwerth Goch CSO AT BEDFORD ROAD CEFN CRIBWR , 103 708 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Heol Y Geifr COYCHURCH ROAD CSO BRIDGEND 34 195 96.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Heol-Y-Geifr Hendre Road CSO Pencoed 48 139 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogwr CSO at Riverside Aberkenfig 52 114 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ogmore Estuary Laleston PS 38 108 96.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Geifr REDLANDS CLOSE CSO PENCOED BRIDGEND 47 83 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Brid Ogwr Pt 32 Aberkenfig CSO Br'd 24 72 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Ffornwg Ty-Isaf Road CSO 15 23 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel BEACH ROAD CSO PORTHCAWL 9 8 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel WINDSOR RAOD CSO PORTCAWL 18 8 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel At Irongate Pt IRONGATE PS PORTCAWL BRIDGEND 4 6 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel Via Newton Pt BEACH ROAD PUMPING STATION NEWTON 7 5 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cefn Glas MILTON DRIVE CSO BRIDGEND 13 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogmore Swo. Tynycoed (Point 30) CSO 8 2 96.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogmore WILDMILL CSO WILDMILL BRIDGEND 1 2 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogmore PBONT NEWBRDG FLDS CSO 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Estuarial Waters Of River Severn Porthcawl Sanderling Close No 7 0 0 46.4

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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