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River Llyfni polluted by sewage 622 times in 2025 - lasting 5,865 hours

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Totals for River Llyfni in 2025
8 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
622 sewage dumps
5,865 h duration
That's 8.15 months. On average 1.7 times a day
Constituencies along River Llyfni
Places along River Llyfni

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Llyfni 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 Llyfni Nantlle PS 102 1,553 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni LLANLLYFNI CAERNARFON STW 113 1,504 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni Talysarn No 3 - CSO 86 827 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni CAERAU STH CSO ASSET 52420 MAESTEG 49 648 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni Talysarn No 4 - CSO 87 567 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni Llanllyfni Glan Aber CSO 130 340 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni Settled Storm Sewage at Llanllyfni WwTW 27 280 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Llyfni PONTLLYFNI STW 28 142 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.

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