Port Talbot

Polluted by sewage 494 times in 2024 lasting 3,517 hours

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Totals for Port Talbot in 2024

14 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

494 sewage dumps

3,517 hours duration

That's 4.88 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Port Talbot

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Port Talbot in 2024. 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 locality all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Neath Estuary	FABIAN WAY SPS FABIAN WAY SWANSEA	77	1,312	98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Tawe	CSO 104 NEWBRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STAT	63	723	100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Nant Cwm-Clais	CSO at rear of Ynys Y Wern	110	468	97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Croeserw Brook	CSO 122 18 DUKE STREET AFAN	39	355	98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Afan	CSO No 115 Scotts Yard Cwmafan	31	266	96
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Ffrwd Wyllt	GLANDYRRRYN CLOSE CSO PORT TALBOT	31	114	99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Swansea Bay	ABBEY SPS BRITISH STEEL SITE	21	89	99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Afan	CSO at O/S 54 YNYS STREET	42	64	89.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Afan	CSO NO 126 MOORS ST CULVERT AFAN	22	51	79.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Afan	Britannia Inn CSO, Cwmafan	29	46	78.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Neath Estuary	BRITON FERRY SPS INNER DOCK NEATH	3	11	99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Afan	Afan St CSO	21	9	97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Neath Estuary	GEORGES ROW SPS GEORGES ROW NEATH	4	4	99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Arnallt Brook	CSO 123 MARGAM PS NR BROMBILL ST	1	1	99.8

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.

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