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Cardiff South and Penarth - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,566 hours in 2025

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Cardiff South and Penarth for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 0 hours
Feb - 71 hours
Mar - 9 hours
Apr - 142 hours
May - 55 hours
Jun - 19 hours
Jul - 20 hours
Aug - 18 hours
Sept - 342 hours
Oct - 85 hours
Nov - 329 hours
Dec - 464 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Central Storm Overflow Severn Estuary 61 277h 23m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Stonylands Storm Overflow Sully Brook 29 257h 49m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penarth Head Storm Overflow Severn Estuary 39 167h 56m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Eastern Short Sea Outfall Storm Overflow Severn Estuary 30 119h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Eastern Long Sea Outfall Storm Overflow Severn Estuary 30 119h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cog Moors WwTW Storm Overflow Coastal Waters - Lavernock Point 17 110h 34m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penarth Kymin Storm Overflow Bristol Channel 36 103h 54m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penarth Marina Storm Overflow Severn Estuary 6 82h 53m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Brockhill Rise Storm Overflow Bristol Channel 28 81h 41m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Western District Storm Overflow River Ely 12 81h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sully Moors Road Storm Overflow Tributary of Sully Brook 13 37h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water St Cadoc's Avenue Dinas Powys Storm Overflow Cadoxton River 8 34h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Grangetown Storm Overflow River Taff 9 31h 16m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penarth Road Storm Overflow River Ely 9 16h 46m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Havelock Street Cardiff Storm Overflow River Taff 9 11h 21m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Maple Road Storm Overflow Culvert to a Tributary of Sully Brook 5 8h 38m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cogan Flooding Relief Storm Overflow River Ely via Cowslip 1 6h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cornerswell Road Penarth Storm Overflow The Sully Brook 5 5h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Street Cardiff Storm Overflow River Taff 4 4h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ocean Park Storm Overflow Severn Estuary 2 2h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penarth Cogan Storm Overflow River Ely Estuary 5 2h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Countess Place Penarth Overflow The Sully Brook 3 1h 1m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Harrowby Street Storm Overflow River Taff Estuary 1 0h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Argae Lane Storm Overflow Culvert Leading to Coldbrook 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.