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Swansea West

Polluted by sewage 1,010 times in 2025 lasting 4,225 hours

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Live data for Swansea West in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Aug 2026, 07:16) there has been 572 hours of sewage overflows, from 39 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Swansea West in 2025

32 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,010 sewage dumps
4,225 hours duration
That's 5.87 months. On average 2.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Swansea West 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 Tawe CSO Ynysforgan Roundabout 81 861 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Esturial Waters OUTFALL 'M' THE TAWE BARRAGE SWANS 68 695 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Ynystawe (Point 86 New Ma) 96 688 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe WYCHTREE STREET CSO MORRISTON 79 663 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 70 A4067 Nthbnd Landore Swansea 92 315 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Culvert Of Bwrlais Brook CWMBWRLA CSO CWMBWRLA RBOUT SWANSEA 53 292 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Surface Water Sewer To Cwm Gelli Stream CSO 64A PENLANFACH BRYNHYFRYD 65 145 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llan Blaenymaes Drive CSO 44 97 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Clyne CSO NO 34 REAR OF FURZELAND DRIVE S 20 75 97.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Culvert Of Cwm Gelli Stream BRYNHYFRYD CSO LLANGYFELACH ROAD 54 74 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Estuarial Waters Of Swansea Ba SWO. NEAR H.M. PRISON (POINT 6 35 67 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Melyn Via The Surface Water Sewer CSO 73 CROWN ST MORRISTON SWANSEA 53 58 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Culvert Of Burlais Brook CSO 119 CWM ROAD HAFOD SWANSEA 56 52 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llan Skomer Place CSO, Blaen Y Maes 24 27 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cwmrhydyceirw Brook Via Surface Water Network CSO 80 Pentrpoeth Rd Morriston 51 21 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Clyne CSO SKETTY PARK DRIVE SWANSEA , 12 18 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cwm Gelli MYNYDDGARNLLWYD CSO SWANSEA 27 15 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llan Cadleroad Road CSO 21 12 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cwmgelli Via Surface Water Drains CSO at Penlan Cresent (Point 52A) Swansea 25 11 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llan Mynydd Newydd Rd CSO 9 7 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Culvert Of Cwm Gelli Stream CSO 69 TRWYDDFA ROAD SWANSEA 16 6 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llan Via Surface Water Sewer FFORD-Y-BRAIN/PORT TALBOT PLACE CSO 6 3 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llan Via Surface Water Sewer Cadle Common CSO 2 3 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Sketty Green CSO 3 2 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Brynmill Stream Singleton Park Point 24 CSO 3 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Melyn Via The Surface Water Sewer CSO 72 Slate St Morriston Swansea 4 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water A Culvert Of Burlais Brook CSO 60 Gors Avenue Swansea 4 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Brynmill Stream CSO AT GLANBRYDAN AVENUE 2 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Melyn Via The Surface Water Sewer CSO 81 CWM BATH ROAD MORRISTON 2 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Clyne CSO NO 21 DERWEN FAWR ROAD SKETTY S 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Near Chemical Rd. Morriston 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL K (CSO 264) JUN OF MUMBLES 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sea BRYNYMOR ROAD/WESTBURY RD POINT 28 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cwm Gelli Stream, River Tawe CSO 69A Heol Nant Gelli Swansea 0 0 96.6

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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