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Cwmafan

Polluted by sewage 424 times in 2025 lasting 2,037 hours

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Totals for Cwmafan in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
424 sewage dumps
2,037 hours duration
That's 2.83 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cwmafan 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 Alyn Cwmafan RFC CSO 65 605 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO 101 THE WAUN 200M U/S FOOTBRIDGE 91 564 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cwm-Clais CSO at rear of Ynys Y Wern 85 480 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan CSO No 115 Scotts Yard Cwmafan 53 145 96.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Britannia Inn CSO, Cwmafan 47 126 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Pelenna CSO 103 Under R'Dbr Pontrhydyfen 59 103 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Afan Pontrhydyfen Road Bridge CSO 19 7 97.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Pelenna CSO 117 Playground 3 Morgan Trce 5 5 98.6

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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