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River Lliw polluted by sewage 449 times in 2025 - lasting 2,538 hours

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Totals for River Lliw in 2025
7 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
449 sewage dumps
2,538 h duration
That's 3.52 months. On average 1.2 times a day
Constituencies along River Lliw

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Lliw 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 Lliw Pont-y-cob Road CSO 120 1,028 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw CSO BACH Y GWREIDDYN FARM PONTLLIW 140 723 72.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw Rhosog P.S 61 333 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw KINGSBRIDGE CSO GORSEINON SWANSEA 58 210 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw CSO APX 70YDS U/S R'WAY B'GE U 43 134 80.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw Gorseinon Factory CSO 25 107 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lliw GORSEINON 2 S121 BAKO CSO GORSEINON 2 1 99.5

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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