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Porth

Polluted by sewage 769 times in 2025 lasting 3,977 hours

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Totals for Porth in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
769 sewage dumps
3,977 hours duration
That's 5.52 months. On average 2.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Porth 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 Rhondda Brook Street Combined Sewer Overflow 149 1,099 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr Station Rd CSO, Dinas, Porth 120 919 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda A COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW GYFEILLON 132 657 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr River CSO GYLFACH ROAD PORTH RHONDDA 94 420 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach CSO at CROSS STREET YNYSHIR R-C-T 99 348 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Aberrhondda Road CSO 62 247 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda A Combined Sewer Overflow, Trehafod 13 152 94.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda CSO AT CADWGAN TERRACE TREHAFOD 16 41 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Trehafod Pumping Station 51 39 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach CSO at Wattstown-Bailey St Land Recla 15 35 71.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach James Terrace CSO 8 10 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Penrhiwfer Ashdale Rd CSO, rear of No23 6 4 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Cymmer Rd CSO, Porth 4 1 100

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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