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Pontypridd - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 9,499 hours in 2026 - That's 1.1 years so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Pontypridd so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 2,150 hours
Feb - 3,738 hours
Mar - 818 hours
Apr - 178 hours
May - 1,032 hours
Jun - 1,365 hours
Jul - 28 hours
Aug - 135 hours
Sept - 51 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cilfynydd WwTW Storm Overflow River Taff 95 1,756h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Parish Road Beddau Storm Overflow Nant Myddlyn 114 1,547h 5m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Row Abercynon Overflow River Cynon 63 1,067h 20m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glynmynach Street Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 70 891h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dyffryn Isaf WwTW Storm Overflow River Ely 46 694h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tonteg Road Taff Vale Storm Overflow River Taff 64 632h 48m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pontcynon Pipe Bridge Storm Overflow River Cynon 54 584h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Abercynon Wood Road Storm Overflow River Taff 44 437h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Robert Street Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 45 264h 50m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llanharan Storage Storm Overflow Ewenni Fach River 39 249h 14m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Crossbrook Street Storm Overflow River Taff 37 183h 39m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bethlehem View Fields Storm Overflow Ewenni Fach River 47 120h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lanelay Park Storm Overflow River Ely 43 102h 12m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Treforest Lewistown Park Overflow River Taff 14 100h 11m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cynon WwTW Storm Overflow River Taff 7 95h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Miskin Road Railway Storm Overflow River Cynon 24 91h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water South of Lee Street Storm Overflow River Rhondda 25 91h 16m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Gyfeillon Gardens Storm Overflow River Rhondda 46 82h 9m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water James Street Junction Overflow River Taff 18 81h 56m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Old Parish Road Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 28 57h 17m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cribbyn-Ddu Street Junction Storm Overflow River Clydach 13 56h 40m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ynysangharad Park Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Taff 54 53h 26m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Oxford Street Miskin Road Storm Overflow River Cynon 16 43h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Clydach Road Ynysybwl Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 15 38h 44m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Talbot Green Storm Overflow River Clun 14 32h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penycoedcae Storm Overflow Tributary of Nant Tyrarlwudd 27 26h 21m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ynysybwl Road Taff Vale Overflow River Taff 27 26h 20m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glassbrook Terrace Storm Overflow River Cynon 11 12h 41m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pavia Court Storm Overflow River Rhondda 6 11h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Heol Saelm Garages Storm Overflow Nant Arian 8 11h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Duffryn Road Mountain Ash Overflow River Cynon 3 8h 31m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lionel Terrace Storm Overflow River Taff 4 7h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Road Abercynon Storm Overflow Sirhowy River 4 7h 23m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Clydach Terrace Storm overflow Nant Clydach 7 6h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penrhiwceiber Point D Storm Overflow River Cynon 10 5h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water New Road Mountain Ash Storm Overflow River Cynon 5 4h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water West Street Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Taff 3 3h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bailey Street Storm Overflow River Cynon 2 2h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Castle Inn Bridge Storm Overflow River Taff 3 2h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penrhiwceiber Station Storm Overflow River Cynon 5 2h 23m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Heol Miles Storm Overflow River Ely 3 1h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ty Mawr Road Pontypridd Overflow River Rhondda 3 1h 14m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Poplar Road Rhydyfelin Overflow River Taff 1 0h 23m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sheppard Street Storm Overflow River Rhondda 1 0h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Place Clifnydd 2 Storm Overflow Nant Cae-Dudwg 1 0h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Martins Terrace Abercynon Overflow River Taff 1 0h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Maesycoe Lanelay Crescent Storm Overflow River Rhondda 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Hamilton Street Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water St Annes Drive Llantwit Fardre Overflow Nant Clun 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water High Street Pontypridd Overflow River Taff 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bridgend Road Llanharan Overflow River Ewenni 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Brynteg Park Storm Overflow Nant Cymdda Bach 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cynon Terrace Penrhiwceiber Overflow River Cynon 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Low Row Cwmpennar Storm Overflow Tributary of River Cynon 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llantwit Road Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Mountain Ash Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Woodland Street Storm Overflow Afon River 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glyn Dwr Avenue Pontypridd Overflow River Taff 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Mill Street Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Rhondda 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Alexandra Road Pontypridd Overflow River Taff 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ynysangharad Park Bridge Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Place Cilfnydd 1 Storm Overflow Nant Caedudwg 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Hill Mountain Ash Overflow River Cynon 0 0h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pwllgwaun Road Storm Overflow River Rhondda 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.