River Ely polluted by sewage 840 times in 2023 - lasting 7,506 hours

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Totals for River Ely in 2023
19 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
840 sewage dumps
7,506 h duration
That's 10.43 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Ely in 2023. 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 River Ely DUFFRYN ISAF SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 135 2,285 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely A Sewage Pumping Station at Coslech Wastewater Treatment Works 164 2,172 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely ELY VALLEY ROAD CSO, 128 1,484 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Lanelay Park - CSO 117 550 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Whitebridge PS Peterston Super Ely 42 241 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Mill Street, Tonyrefail 57 168 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Tonyrefail, Waunrhydd Road 55 168 90.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Miskin Sewage Pumping Station Miskin 33 165 96.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at TRELAI PARK STORM SEWAGE PS 48 129 92.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Cogan Storm Tank Cogan Penarth 5 41 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Brynsadler Pumping Station Clun Ely 11 33 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Penrhiwfer Ashdale Rd CSO, rear of No23 6 28 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Penarth Llandough Moors Cardiff CSO, Cardiff 7 16 15.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely PETERSTON SUPER ELY STW CSO MAIN AV 11 10 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Ely Mill Rd/Muston Rd CSO, Cardiff 14 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Penarth Road WDPS 1 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Tynybryn Road Tonyrefail R-C-T 3 1 12.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Cardiff Ely Plymouth Rd No 108 2 0 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Danybryn SPS 1 0 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely YNYSDDU PUMPING STATION PONTYCLUN 0 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely RHYDYNANT PS (ADJ TO 49) PONTYCLUN 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely MAES YR FELIN PUMPING STATION 0 0 97.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Fairview SPS 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Mill St CSO, Tonyrefail 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely Tonyrefail, Mill St CSO 0 0 100

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. 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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