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Totals for Yr Wyddgrug in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

287 sewage dumps

861 hours duration

That's 1.2 months. 5.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Yr Wyddgrug 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 Alyn	MOLD WwTW	56	359	99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	CSO at Mynydd Isa Wylfa Hill	39	127	99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	CSO Mynydd Isa Chambers Lane/Mercia Drive Nr 2	48	102	79.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Surface Water System	MYNYDD ISA MOLD ROAD/MERCIA DR CSO	34	81	97.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alun	Mynydd Isa Chambers lane/Mercia Drive CSO	36	76	99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	Black Brook	Mold Bryn Awelon - CSO	12	68	99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	CSO at Mold Gladstone St/Glan Yr Afon Rd	24	21	99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	CSO at Mold Committee's Sewerage System	17	14	99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	Mold Gas Lane CSO	10	5	99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	Mold Old St Davids Lane/Bridge St CSO	4	3	99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	Mold Football Club Drice CSO	4	2	99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	Mold Argoed CSO	3	0	96.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water	River Alyn	Mold Bryn Coch Lane/Lon Y Parc CSO	0	0	99.5

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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