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Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr

Polluted by sewage 1,158 times in 2025 lasting 8,891 hours - That's 1.03 years!

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Live data for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 6,519 hours of sewage overflows, from 41 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr in 2025

35 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,158 sewage dumps
8,891 hours duration
That's 12.35 months. On average 3.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr 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 River Twymyn Commins Coch Pumping Station CSO 120 2,675 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Iaen LLANBRYNMAIR STW LLANBRYNMAIR 95 1,855 94.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wye River LLANGURIG STW 75 1,476 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn Ditch MACHYNLLETH STW CSO 65 460 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dyfi MACHYNLLETH STW 55 410 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CEFN MAWR WwTW 48 318 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch Pant CSO 73 313 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Aber Glesyrch Ceinws SPS 20 197 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tref Y Nant Brook CEFN PS 46 157 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glanyrafon Brook Rhostyllen Bersham Colliery CSO 52 145 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch Afon Eitha CSO 52 88 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn River Dovey Machynlleth - Doll Street CSO 62 86 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ceiriog DOL Y WERN - CSO 32 69 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Eitha Penycae SPS 17 66 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tref Y Nant Brook Cefn Monsanto CSO 28 58 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Spool Johnstown Combined Sewerage System CSO 32 55 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch Bersham Colliery CSO 36 53 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Bradley CHIRK PS (SCREENED STROM) 24 52 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Eitha Ruabon PS 20 51 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Watercourse Fford Offa CSO 31 48 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dyfi MACHYNLLETH WWTW (STORM OUTFALL) 9 47 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Chirk O/S 24 Offa St CSO 14 45 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ceiriog Glynceiriog Y Gammer - CSO 45 33 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Eitha Ruabon Paddock Row CSO 7 20 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glanyrafon Brook CSO at COLLIERY ROAD RHOSTYLLEN 19 19 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Black Brook Aberderfyn CSO, Rhosllanerchrugog 13 18 84.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Rhosymedre Park Rd CSO 11 16 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Laen CSO at Llanbrynmair STW Llanbrynmair 3 14 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Newbridge SPS 7 14 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn Ditch Heol Penrallt CSO 14 8 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Un-Named Watercourse Machynlleth - Popular Road CSO 21 7 91.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CSO at Rear Hamden Way Plas Madoc 4 1 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Eitha Penycae West End School Field Land CSO 5 1 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ceiliog DOLYWERN STW 2 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Flowing To Bradley Brook Chirk Chapel Lane CSO 1 0 96.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Bradley CHIRK PS (SCREENED STORM) 0 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Goch CSO at Ruabon Combined Sewerage System 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Twymyn LLAN LLANBRYNMAIR PS CSO 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Garsiwn Ditch MACHYNLLETH STW 0 0 98.7

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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