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Llanelli

Polluted by sewage 450 times in 2025 lasting 2,200 hours

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Totals for Llanelli in 2025

22 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
450 sewage dumps
2,200 hours duration
That's 3.06 months. On average 1.2 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Llanelli 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 Estuary LLANELLI WWTW BERWICK ROAD BYNEA 49 368 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen St Michael’s Church CSO 32 343 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen East of Kingfisher Court CSO 36 326 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughour Estuary BEN HUGHES FOUNDRY CSO OPP REV JAME 72 255 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dulais SANDY SPS (A484 o/s gate to Sandy PS) 53 173 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen CSO at Heol Cropin SPS 17 166 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor Estuary PWLL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION CARMS 15 160 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor Estuary SSO. NORTHUMBERLAND OUTFALL 29 90 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dulais YARD BRIDGE CSO SANDY RD PWLL LLAN 20 80 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tidal Pill Of Loughor Estuary Bynea Sewage pumping Station 15 72 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pîl Dafen CSO 49 Tir Einon, Llwynhendy 24 57 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi Llanelli - Head Post Office CSO 27 39 81.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi CSO BELOW ANDREW STREET BRIDGE LLAN 6 20 80
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Outer Cambrian Street P.S. SSO 13 18 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen Havard Road CSO 17 11 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Of River Dafen LLWYNUHILWG PS EMERG , , 2 6 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi SWO.BELOW PENYFAN QUARRY(S158) LLAN 14 6 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen HALFWAY PS DAFEN LLANELLI CARMS 4 1 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi HEOL GOFFA ROAD CSO LLANELLI CARMS 1 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen Halfway Area CSO, Y Llwyn, Coedcae 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dafen Via Surface Water Culvert Pencae Terrace CSO 1 0 96.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Surf W System To River Dafen ST GEORGE COTTAGES CSO COEDCAE 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi BUCKLEYS CELLAR CSO LLANELLI 0 0 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi CSO at 52 Maestir, Llanelli 0 0 85.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Un HEOL HEN CSO LLWYNHENDY LLANELLI 0 0 91.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliedi Llanelli - O/S Thomas Brothers CSO 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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