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Prestatyn

Polluted by sewage 72 times in 2025 lasting 295 hours

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Totals for Prestatyn in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
72 sewage dumps
295 hours duration
That's 1.76 weeks. 1.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Prestatyn 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 Prestatyn Gutter PRESTATYN SPS MARINE RD EAST 15 93 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Prestatyn Gutter Meliden Holding Tank - CSO 14 77 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhyl Cut Coast Road PS Rhyl 9 47 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water An Open Discharging To Prestatyn Gutter Dyserth Bay SPS 5 23 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Prestatyn Gutter CORONATION GARDENS PS 6 18 66.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Overflow Via Sewerage System S PRESTATYN PURBECK PS 7 11 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Prestatyn Gutter PRESTATYN MELIDEN ROAD - SSO 9 11 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhyl Cut MARINE PARK PS 3 6 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Overflow Via Sewerage System S PRESTATYN MALL PS 4 6 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Mill Stream PRESTATYN NANT HALL PS NANT HALL RO 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Railway Ditch PRESTATYN NANT HALL PS NANT HALL RO 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Overflow Via Sewage System Sur PRESTATYN NANT PS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Prestatyn Gutter PRESTATYN SEVEN SISTERS ROAD SPS 0 0 99.9

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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