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Aberpennar

Polluted by sewage 310 times in 2025 lasting 1,004 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Aberpennar in 2025

10 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
310 sewage dumps
1,004 hours duration
That's 1.39 months. 6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Aberpennar 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 1 of the total 12 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 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Oxford St CSO, Mountain Ash 85 434 95.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon CSO Opposite Miskin Hotel, far side of railway 68 300 82.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Glassbrook Terrace CSO, Penrhiwceiber 48 124 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon NEWTOWN COMMUNITY HALL CSO 32 63 99.7
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 Cwmpennar CSO, Adj Low Rd, Mountain Ash 5 8 94.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Abercwmboi Parkview Capcoch Infant School CSO 7 3 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon TOWN HALL 4 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon CSO at Cwmbach Bryngolwg No 45 2 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon Duffryn Rd Mount 2 CSO 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Cynon No 10 Hamilton St CSO, Mountain Ash 0 0 100

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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