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Bridgend was polluted by sewage 549 times in 2023
lasting 3,623 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Bridgend in 2023
15 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
549 sewage dumps
3,623 h duration
That's 5.03 months. On average 1.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bridgend 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 3 of the total 18 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ogmore Estuary PENYBONT WWTW PENYBONT 108 1,582 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Iorwerth Goch CSO AT BEDFORD ROAD CEFN CRIBWR , 133 1,052 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Geifr REDLANDS CLOSE CSO PENCOED BRIDGEND 81 430 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Heol-Y-Geifr Hendre Road CSO Pencoed 80 280 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel At Irongate Pt IRONGATE PS PORTCAWL BRIDGEND 14 84 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogwr CSO at Riverside Aberkenfig 39 83 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llynfi Brid Ogwr Pt 32 Aberkenfig CSO Br'd 22 39 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ogmore Estuary Laleston PS 13 25 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel WINDSOR RAOD CSO PORTCAWL 25 14 91.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel Via Newton Pt BEACH ROAD PUMPING STATION NEWTON 9 11 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogmore PBONT NEWBRDG FLDS CSO 10 7 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bristol Channel BEACH ROAD CSO PORTHCAWL 5 6 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cefn Glas MILTON DRIVE CSO BRIDGEND 6 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogmore Swo. Tynycoed (Point 30) CSO 3 1 97.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ogmore WILDMILL CSO WILDMILL BRIDGEND 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Heol Y Geifr COYCHURCH ROAD CSO BRIDGEND 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Estuarial Waters Of River Severn Porthcawl Sanderling Close No 7 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Ffornwg Ty-Isaf Road 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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