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Gorseinon

Polluted by sewage 568 times in 2025 lasting 4,560 hours

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Totals for Gorseinon in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
568 sewage dumps
4,560 hours duration
That's 6.33 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

Constituency for Gorseinon

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gorseinon 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 Loughor Est'Y LLANNANT WWTW LLANNANT ROAD SWANSEA 122 2,061 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw Pont-y-cob Road CSO 120 1,028 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary GOWERTON WwTW 49 361 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw Rhosog P.S 61 333 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughour Estuary BEN HUGHES FOUNDRY CSO OPP REV JAME 72 255 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw KINGSBRIDGE CSO GORSEINON SWANSEA 58 210 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw CSO APX 70YDS U/S R'WAY B'GE U 43 134 80.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw Gorseinon Factory CSO 25 107 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unnamed Stream To Loughor Estu CSO BRYNAFON ROAD GORSEINON SWANSEA 12 65 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary Via Surface Water Sewer HEOL PENTRE BACH CSO GORSEINON 3 1 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw GORSEINON 2 S121 BAKO CSO GORSEINON 2 1 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary Via Surface Water Sewer Borough Road CSO Gorseinon Swansea 1 0 99.2

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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