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Abercynon

Polluted by sewage 536 times in 2025 lasting 5,184 hours

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Totals for Abercynon in 2025

10 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
536 sewage dumps
5,184 hours duration
That's 7.2 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Abercynon 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 place 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 Taff CILFYNYDD STW CILFYNYDD PONTYPRID 112 1,698 97.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon PONTCYNON PIPE BRIDGE CSO ABERCYNON 103 1,165 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff CYNON VALLEY STW GLYNCOCH PONTY 64 778 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Abercynon Wood Rd SPS 66 703 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Cilfynydd STW Cilfynydd Pontypridd Settled Storm 20 329 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Quakers Yard CSO, Greenfield Victoria Bridge 32 160 86.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Quakers Yard CSO, Fiddlers Elbow St, Cynon 32 157 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Glassbrook Terrace CSO, Penrhiwceiber 48 124 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water R Cynon - Conf Aman R To Conf R Taff Station Terrace CSO, Penrhiwceiber 30 38 80.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Penrhiwceiber Point D CSO 29 30 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Abercynon Rugby Club CSO 0 0 99.3

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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