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Tredegar

Polluted by sewage 972 times in 2025 lasting 3,460 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Tredegar in 2025

20 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
972 sewage dumps
3,460 hours duration
That's 4.81 months. On average 2.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tredegar 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 1 of the total 23 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw RIVERSIDE DOCTORS SURGERY EBBW VALE CSO 102 758 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Tredegar Park Place CSO 161 709 94.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO 32075 Opposite Garibaldi Bridge 75 302 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy A CSO AT REAR OF CHURCH SQ TREDEGAR 79 250 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Tredegar, South of Pochin Crescent 39 233 91.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO OPP 1 DUKESTOWN ROAD TREDEGAR 60 228 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO Opposite White Lion Cottages 55 199 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Tredegar, Edward Terrace Nr River Bridge 69 190 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO at Tredegar, Vicarage Road Rear of Hill Rest 56 178 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO 32084 Scwrfa Road, Tredegar 43 96 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Tredegar, Railway View, opposite No13 52 64 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ebbw River Tredegar Rd Nr 62A, Ebbw Vale 29 64 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Tredegar Vale Terrace R/O 61 40 42 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Morgan St CSO, Tredegar 38 42 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Melyn/Rasa Brook Coedcae House CSO 18 32 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Tredegar, Vale Terrace R/O 101 U/S Garage 31 29 92.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Tredegar, Brompton SSO 1 MH No GN86A 10 27 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Tredegar Ladies Row CSO o/s School Entrance 10 9 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rasa Brook Under Flyover 3 0 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at Tredegar, Vale Terrace R/O 123 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO AT REAR OF NO1 ALEXANDRA PLACE 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ebbw CSO at R/O PH Beaufort Rd / R/O 23 Lillian Grove 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy CSO at St James Close Maes-Y-Coed,Tredegar 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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