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Monmouthshire

Polluted by sewage 1,854 times in 2025 lasting 17,322 hours - That's 2 years!

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Live data for Monmouthshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 16,671 hours of sewage overflows, from 40 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.93 years!

Totals for Monmouthshire in 2025

30 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,854 sewage dumps
17,322 hours duration
That's 2 years. On average 5.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Monmouthshire 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 Mounton Brook Pwllmeyric SPS (CSO) 193 3,932 94.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk USK STW GRAIG OLWAY FARM LLANGVIEW 87 1,453 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Estuary Chepstow South SPS Hunger Pill STW 110 1,439 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk LLANGYBI STW LLANGYBI USK 234 1,345 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Usk River GOYTRE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS NANT 93 1,275 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Honddu PANDY STW PANDY MONMOUTHSHIRE 92 1,073 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Welsh Street Chepstow 130 1,054 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Clydach Maesygwartha SPS and CSO 92 1,031 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Clawdd Brook CSO at Great Oak STW 44 580 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk ABERBAIDEN STW BEHIND HOP YARD FARM 113 578 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Clydach River CLYDACH CSO 61 545 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk LLANFOIST WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS ME 65 502 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Mynachdy Brook Bryn Y Gwenin SPS Abergavenny 35 467 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye MONMOUTH STW REDBROOK ROAD MONMOUTH 43 435 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Estuary Chepstow North Fairfield SPS 75 332 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Tintern Main SPS 20 326 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Mill Street Screens CSO Abergaven 69 263 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Mounton Brook Mathern SPS 17 142 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Monmouth 2 CSO 38 140 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Berthin Brook Little Mill CSO, Panty Pwdin 32 131 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Estuary Chepstow North SPS The Back 59 72 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Thornwell Road CSO 49 63 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Monnow CSO at Monmouth Town Pumping Station 23 38 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Clydach Glangrwyney Rd CSO, Gilwern 28 31 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Wilcae RAGLAN STW CHEPSTOW ROAD RAGLAN 24 30 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Wilcae Raglan CSO No. 1 7 16 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rivr Wye WARREN SLADE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 1 7 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Raglan Way CSO 12 7 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Olway Brook RAILWAY COTTAGE CSO 1 3 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Severn Estuary Magor SPS Magor STW Site Newport 7 2 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Severn Estuary Caldicot SPS at Caldicot STW 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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