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Coastal Waters polluted by sewage 337 times in 2025 - lasting 3,245 hours

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Totals for Coastal Waters in 2025
13 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
337 sewage dumps
3,245 h duration
That's 4.51 months. 6.5 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Coastal Waters in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters Llaneilian SPS 54 688 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters PENSARN SPS ABERGELE STORM 71 606 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters RHOSNEIGR STW (SETTLED STORM/EMERGE 39 587 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters FAIRBOURNE WWTW STORM TANKS 28 554 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters CRICCIETH EAST PS , , 56 399 96.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters Llwyngwril SPS 32 202 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters COVENTRY CAMP SPS STORM 18 100 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters MOELFRE PS MOELFRE 20 69 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters ROCK STREET PS NEW QUAY 6 15 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters PENMAENMAWR PROMENADE PS 7 14 96.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters WENDON CAR PARK PS BENLLECH , , , 3 6 85.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters TENBY LIFEBOAT CSO CASTLE SQ TENBY 2 2 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Coastal Waters CYNLAI PS LLANGOED ANGLESEY 1 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

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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