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Newport West and Islwyn

Polluted by sewage 1,639 times in 2025 lasting 15,578 hours - That's 1.8 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Newport West and Islwyn in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 7,258 hours of sewage overflows, from 42 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Newport West and Islwyn in 2025

34 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,639 sewage dumps
15,578 hours duration
That's 1.8 years. On average 4.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newport West and Islwyn 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 2 of the total 38 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Tanybryn Risca CSO, Pontymister 196 3,474 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River CSO 36 CWMCARN HIGH SCHOOL CHAPEL F 133 2,358 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary RHYMNEY VALLEY TRUNK SEWER CSO 140 2,262 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney A CSO 700M SE OF PLAS MACHEN COTAGE 102 1,509 85.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary WESTERN VALLEY TRUNK SEWER CSO 59 1,319 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Estuary Maesglas SPS 63 715 96.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River Car Park of Old Globe CSO, St John Crescent 85 691 94.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr Tredegar Park Golf Club CSO 94 592 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River CSO 47 ALCAN WORKS ROGERSTONE 46 437 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhynys Brook 4 Tredegar Terrace CSO 35 375 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CSO 33 REAR BRYNGWYN ROAD/HIGH ST 51 272 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Crosskeys Waunfawr Park CSO 26 227 97.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Blackwood Cwmgelli CSO 66 205 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Carn Brook Pontywaun CSO, Newport 53 194 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw MALVERN TERRACE CSO 21 148 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr CRUMLIN SWFFRYD CSO CAERPHILLY 82 141 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Blackwood Oakdale Rhiw Hill CSO 41 105 89.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO 42 92 Tredegar St Cross Keys 12 83 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO CWM ROAD ARGOED CAERPHILLY 23 71 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO 16 Woodfield Row Blackwood 25 63 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Blackwood 100 Steps CSO 37 57 97.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw S/O 108 Commercial St, Risca CSO 36 50 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River 15 Tregwilym Close CSO 35 47 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr Rhiwderin No 6258 in Field CSO 23 40 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhynys Brook Rifleman St CSO, Risca 28 30 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw WVTS-North Celynen Colliery CSO 4 26 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CSO 52 TT Electronics Tregwilym Ind 3 21 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Forge Lane near Vicarage CSO, Bassaleg 25 14 86.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr Thornhill Gardens CSO, Rogerstone 19 12 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Gwyddon Via Surface Water Sewer And A Culvert High Street CSO, Abercarn 33 11 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Markham Colliery Gun Club CSO 12 10 89.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CEDAR WOOD DRIVE CSO 26 6 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw Fawr River 21 Gladstone St CSO, Crosskeys 4 1 97.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw WVTS - NEWBRIDGE CSO CAERPHILLY 1 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw Fawr CSO at Bassaleg Forge Lane near Nos 5 & 6 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Hollybush - Ancient Druid 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw R/O Cobden St CSO, Crosskeys 0 0 91.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy WVTS-HOLLYBUSH SSO 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. 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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