Newport West and Islwyn was polluted by sewage 2,011 times in 2023
lasting 17,962 hours - that's 2.08 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Newport West and Islwyn in 2023
35 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
2,011 sewage dumps
17,962 h duration
That's 2.08 years! On average 5.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newport West and Islwyn 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 2 of the total 37 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary WESTERN VALLEY TRUNK SEWER CSO 207 4,036 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary RHYMNEY VALLEY TRUNK SEWER CSO 141 2,394 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney A CSO 700M SE OF PLAS MACHEN COTAGE 143 2,179 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Tanybryn Risca CSO, Pontymister 115 1,479 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr Rhiwderin No 6258 in Field CSO 106 1,470 97
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Estuary Maesglas SPS 146 1,212 95.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Crosskeys Waunfawr Park CSO 104 1,023 96.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr Tredegar Park Golf Club CSO 134 899 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River CSO 36 CWMCARN HIGH SCHOOL CHAPEL F 78 684 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO 42 92 Tredegar St Cross Keys 57 560 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River CSO 47 ALCAN WORKS ROGERSTONE 43 442 95.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River Car Park of Old Globe CSO, St John Crescent 90 419 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Carn Brook Pontywaun CSO, Newport 71 307 97
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Blackwood Cwmgelli CSO 60 163 85.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Blackwood Oakdale Rhiw Hill CSO 72 123 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CSO 33 REAR BRYNGWYN ROAD/HIGH ST 61 108 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River 15 Tregwilym Close CSO 60 83 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO CWM ROAD ARGOED CAERPHILLY 23 54 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Gwyddon Via Surface Water Sewer And A Culvert High Street CSO, Abercarn 47 51 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO 16 Woodfield Row Blackwood 22 44 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr CRUMLIN SWFFRYD CSO CAERPHILLY 52 42 73.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Markham Colliery Gun Club CSO 9 34 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CSO 52 TT Electronics Tregwilym Ind 7 32 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw S/O 108 Commercial St, Risca CSO 41 31 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr River 21 Gladstone St CSO, Crosskeys 26 26 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw MALVERN TERRACE CSO 15 11 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhynys Brook 4 Tredegar Terrace CSO 4 9 39
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Forge Lane near Vicarage CSO, Bassaleg 20 7 79.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr Thornhill Gardens CSO, Rogerstone 16 6 97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw WVTS-North Celynen Colliery CSO 5 6 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CEDAR WOOD DRIVE CSO 19 5 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Fawr CSO at Bassaleg Forge Lane near Nos 5 & 6 4 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw R/O Cobden St CSO, Crosskeys 1 3 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw WVTS - NEWBRIDGE CSO CAERPHILLY 6 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhynys Brook Rifleman St CSO, Risca 6 1 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Hollybush - Ancient Druid 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Blackwood 100 Steps CSO 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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