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River Conwy polluted by sewage 551 times in 2025 - lasting 3,460 hours

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Totals for River Conwy in 2025
12 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
551 sewage dumps
3,460 h duration
That's 4.81 months. On average 1.5 times a day
Constituencies along River Conwy
Places along River Conwy

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Conwy 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 River Conwy LLANRWST STW LLLANWRST CONWY 95 1,150 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy Betws y Coed Golf Club PS 82 872 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy SPS at Llanrwst STW Llanrwst Conwy 90 428 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy DEGANWY PS MARINE CRESCENT DEGANWY 80 228 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy Dolgarreg Tan Y Fford SPS 42 224 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy Tyn Y Groes STW - Storm Overflow 37 183 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy Waterloo SPS 26 154 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy Tan Y Fford CSO 34 98 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy LLANDUDNO JUNCTION PS 15 45 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy Betwys Y Coed Muriau P.S. 26 31 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy QUAY PS CONWY QUAY CONWY 12 30 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy TYWYN PS 12 13 97.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Conwy CSO NEAR PS NO 2 TREFRIW 0 0 0

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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