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Pillmawr Creek polluted by sewage 69 times in 2025 - lasting 244 hours

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Totals for Pillmawr Creek in 2025
4 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
69 sewage dumps
244 h duration
That's 1.45 weeks. 1.3 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Pillmawr Creek

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Pillmawr Creek 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 Pillmawr Creek R/O 228 Pilton Vale CSO, Newport 24 147 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pillmawr Creek Woodlands (Horrocks Close) SPS 19 58 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pillmawr Creek 27 Wavell Drive CSO 16 27 88
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pillmawr Creek 11 Robertson Way CSO, Newport 10 11 100

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.

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