Loughor Estuary polluted by sewage 359 times in 2024 - lasting 3,971 hours

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Totals for Loughor Estuary in 2024
6 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
359 sewage dumps
3,971 h duration
That's 5.52 months. 6.9 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Loughor Estuary

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Loughor Estuary in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary Llannant WWTW Llannant Road Swansea Settled Storm 111 1,878 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary SSO. PENCLAWDD SEWERAGE SCHEME 128 1,381 93.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary LLANELLI WWTW BERWICK ROAD BYNEA 59 355 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary GOWERTON WwTW 48 343 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary Holythorne Crofty B Sewage PS 8 8 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Loughor Estuary Cefn Stylle P.S. Gowerton 5 3 99.8

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. This 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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