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Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr was polluted by sewage 1,785 times in 2023
lasting 18,500 hours - that's 2.14 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr in 2023
35 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,785 sewage dumps
18,500 h duration
That's 2.14 years! On average 4.9 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr 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 1 of the total 37 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Laen CSO at Llanbrynmair STW Llanbrynmair 291 5,811 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Twymyn Commins Coch Pumping Station CSO 195 4,422 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Llangurig P.S. - Overflow 151 2,738 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Twymyn LLAN LLANBRYNMAIR PS CSO 59 827 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dyfi MACHYNLLETH WWTW (STORM OUTFALL) 96 742 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tref Y Nant Brook CEFN PS 86 640 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch Pant CSO 100 574 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn Ditch MACHYNLLETH STW CSO 73 486 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Aber Glesyrch Ceinws SPS 39 466 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CEFN MAWR WwTW 39 444 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch Afon Eitha CSO 75 178 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn River Dovey Machynlleth - Doll Street CSO 93 158 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Eitha Penycae SPS 43 155 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glanyrafon Brook Rhostyllen Bersham Colliery CSO 63 133 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tref Y Nant Brook Cefn Monsanto CSO 63 122 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ceiriog CSO at Dolywern & Llwynmawr STW 22 86 49.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Eitha Ruabon PS 27 77 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Spool Johnstown Combined Sewerage System CSO 28 66 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Bradley CHIRK PS (SCREENED STROM) 27 66 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Chirk O/S 24 Offa St CSO 13 55 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse Fford Offa CSO 34 55 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ceiriog DOL Y WERN - CSO 25 47 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Rhosymedre Park Rd CSO 15 40 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glanyrafon Brook CSO at COLLIERY ROAD RHOSTYLLEN 25 32 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Un-Named Watercourse Machynlleth - Popular Road CSO 38 17 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ceiriog Glynceiriog Y Gammer - CSO 23 17 74
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Eitha Ruabon Paddock Row CSO 6 14 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn Ditch Heol Penrallt CSO 17 8 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch Bersham Colliery CSO 7 8 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CSO at Rear Hamden Way Plas Madoc 4 2 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Eitha Penycae West End School Field Land CSO 2 0 97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Flowing To Bradley Brook Chirk Chapel Lane CSO 1 0 95.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn Ditch MACHYNLLETH STW 2 0 93.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Newbridge SPS 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch CSO at Ruabon Combined Sewerage System 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Bradley CHIRK PS (SCREENED STORM) 0 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Brook Aberderfyn CSO, Rhosllanerchrugog 0 0 0

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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