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River Lwyd polluted by sewage 1,221 times in 2025 - lasting 7,226 hours

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Totals for River Lwyd in 2025
31 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,221 sewage dumps
7,226 h duration
That's 10.04 months. On average 3.3 times a day
Constituencies along River Lwyd

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Lwyd 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 Lwyd LLANFRECHFA STORM TANKS PONTHIR 125 1,535 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Chapel Lane CSO 68 1,241 97.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd CSO at Griffithstown Subsidary Sewer 98 809 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd CSO OPPOSITE THE JOB CENTRE IN 113 625 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd New Road CSO, Pontypool 80 436 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Pontnewynydd Mill Rd CSO 77 381 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Pontypool Freeholdland Rd 52 317 95.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Pontypool (Pontymoile) CSO 60 307 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd St Albans School CSO, Pontypool 65 301 97.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Blaenavon Band Hut MH 57A SWO 2 42 217 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd CSO at Blaenavon Station Terrace 55 212 97.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Blaenavon Forgeside CSO 24 167 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Abersychan CSO Coed-Yr-Eos Farm 58 137 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd CSO at Cwmbran Sebastopol Avondale Rd 37 93 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd LOWER NEW INN (PONTYFELIN LANE 16 82 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Snatchwood Rd CSO 32 77 97.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd RISING SUN BRIDGE CSO 41 62 96.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd HOSPITAL ROAD CSO ST JOHNS AMBULANCE 40 47 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Rose Cottage CSO 38 40 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Pontypool Hanbury Rd/Italian Gardens CSO 31 34 95.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Trevethin CSO 12 30 39.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd 103 Beaumaris Drive Cwmbran CSO 7 20 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Convent Garden CSO, Llantarnam 10 19 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Stanley Place CSO, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran 21 15 92.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Pontnewynydd Mill Rd O/S No 4 CSO 2 5 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd 7 Olway Close CSO, Llanyravon 5 3 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Coed Farm CSO Cwmavon Blaenavon 2 3 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd PONTNEWYNYDD CSO 4 1 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Usk Road Pumping Station 3 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd CSO at Rosemary lane End of Car Park 2 0 89.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Hospital Rd CSO, Pontnewynydd 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd 2 Llangorse Road CSO Llanyravon 0 0 82.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd 3 Olway close CSO Llanyravon 0 0 83
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Leigh Rd CSO, Pontypool 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lwyd Pleasant Court CSO, Limekiln Rd, Pontypool 0 0 99.4

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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