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River Dee polluted by sewage 1,018 times in 2025 - lasting 5,395 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Dee 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 Dee CORWEN WWTW FINAL EFFLUENT 58 881 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee BALA WWTW 92 693 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee BANGOR ON DEE STW 48 561 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee FIVE FORDS STW 45 557 97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee LLANGOLLEN WWTW 50 455 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CEFN MAWR WwTW 48 318 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee DEE LANE CSO 58 233 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee OVERTON WWTW 51 222 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Ashgrove PS Shotton 55 212 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CHESTER WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 26 149 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Abbey Road CSO 44 139 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee LITTLE ROODEE CSO 36 109 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Higher Kinnerton SPS 14 89 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee THE DINGLE CHESTER CSO 66 82 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee THE GROVES CSO 34 80 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee DEVA TERRACE CSO 44 78 96.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CHESTER WEIR (SOUTH BANK) CSO 20 73 95.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CSO AT CHESTER STW 28 56 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee GREENFIELD IND EST NO 1 HOLYWELL 9 49 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Chirk O/S 24 Offa St CSO 14 45 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee SAUGHALL VILLAGE CSO 9 41 89.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee GROSVENOR BRIDGE CSO 13 38 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee WEST STREET CSO 11 36 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee PEN Y MAES PUMPING STATION 13 35 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CRANE STREET CSO 20 34 96
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee BOATHOUSE INN CSO 23 28 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Eyton Grove SPS 3 22 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Rhosymedre Park Rd CSO 11 16 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Newbridge SPS 7 14 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CONNAHS QUAY DEVA AVENUE - CSO 13 9 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Corwen Corner Station Yard CSO 4 7 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee SALTNEY SEWERAGE CHESTER STREET PS 6 6 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Holt PS 10 4 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee EDGAR PARK CSO 10 4 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Royal Hotel CSO 3 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CSO at Rear Hamden Way Plas Madoc 4 1 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Llangollen East St CSO 5 1 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Llangollen Chruch St CSO 2 0 97.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Llangollen Riverside Park Printing Works CSO 2 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Llangollen Victoria Prom Riverside CSO 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee GAYTON PARKWAY CSO 1 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Connahs Quay Dock Road PS 1 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee REAR OF 22 CURZON PARK NORTH CSO 1 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee SANDY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee THE DINGLE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee MARSH FARM PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Park Avenue CSO 1 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee Connahs Quay Linden Avenue - CSO 0 0 88.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee OLD DEE BRIDGE (NORTH BANK) CSO 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee CHESTER BELGRAVE PARK SPS 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee HANDBRIDGE GREENBANK SPS 0 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.

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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