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Hereford and South Herefordshire

Polluted by sewage 593 times in 2025 lasting 2,889 hours

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Live data for Hereford and South Herefordshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 16 Aug 2026, 14:16) there has been 4,041 hours of sewage overflows, from 27 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Hereford and South Herefordshire in 2025

25 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
593 sewage dumps
2,889 hours duration
That's 4.01 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hereford and South Herefordshire 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 Worm Brook MUCH DEWCHURCH NEW STW OS PARCEL 24 42 645 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dulas Brook PONTRILAS WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS 37 553 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye EIGN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 47 405 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye PUMPING STATION AT MOCCAS STW 21 300 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye HOPE AND ANCHOR CSO 56 273 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Olchon Brook LONGTOWN STW PS 12 159 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye ROSS LOWER CLEEVE WWTW 21 99 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye ST MARTINS ALLOTMENTS CSO HEREFORD 31 96 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dore PETERCHURCH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WK 12 85 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye HOMS ROAD PUMPING STATION CSO 23 61 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye BELMONT ROUNDABOUT CSO 9 50 94.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREYFRIARS BRIDGE CSO 15 32 92.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye WILTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 26 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye EIGN 1B COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 24 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rudhall Brook BRAMPTON STREET CSO 27 22 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREAT HOUGH BROOK CSO 10 13 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Yazor Brook 3 ELMS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 24 11 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rudhall Brook CAWDOR ARCH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 12 10 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Yazor Brook THREE ELMS ROAD CSO 14 6 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Yazor Brook GRANDSTAND ROAD CSO 11 4 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Yazor Brook BARTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 144 4 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lugg Rheay SEATON AVENUE CSO 6 2 93.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Widemarsh Brook MISS CHAVES COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Small Brook STATION ST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Belvedere Brook WHITECROSS ROAD CSO HEREFORD 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LEYMANS FIELD PS BRAEMAR GARDENS 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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