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Rhydaman

Polluted by sewage 1,363 times in 2025 lasting 13,393 hours - That's 1.55 years!

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Totals for Rhydaman in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,363 sewage dumps
13,393 hours duration
That's 1.55 years. On average 3.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rhydaman 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 Marlais CSO 6 NR BRYN MARLAIS FARM 188 3,335 95.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor CSO 14/43 PONT Y CLERC Rd AMMANFORD 135 1,996 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Amman CSO 33 5M DOWNSTREAM OF PIPE BRIDGE 128 1,782 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Marlas McKays Crossing CSO 114 1,458 97.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Marlais 29 Aberlash Rd CSO, Llandybie 61 871 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor CSO 16 PANTYFFYNON RAILWAY BRIDGE 91 837 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor Combined Sewer Overflow 15 121 819 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Ci CSO 9 10 METRES DOWNSTREAM - BRIDGE 99 557 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Amman CSO 37, Manhole 24B, Betws Rd Bridge 91 489 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor PEN Y BANC CSO 40 ON HENDRE SEWER 73 409 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Amman CS0 34 100M DOWNSTREAM OF BRIDGE 37 229 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor Penybanc Rd 2 CSO 64 227 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Amman CSO 36 Manhole 31c Opp Bettws Pk 72 216 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Amman CSO 38 500 M UP/STRM CONF LOUGHER 59 120 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Loughor Old NCB Yard CSO, Penybanc 30 43 95.1

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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