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River Rhondda polluted by sewage 620 times in 2025 - lasting 2,612 hours

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Totals for River Rhondda in 2025
14 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
620 sewage dumps
2,612 h duration
That's 3.63 months. On average 1.7 times a day
Constituencies along River Rhondda

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Rhondda 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 Rhondda Brook Street Combined Sewer Overflow 149 1,099 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda A COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW GYFEILLON 132 657 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda CSO at Pwllgwuan Syphons, Millfield, Pontypridd 92 419 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda A Combined Sewer Overflow, Trehafod 13 152 94.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Llwynypia Rd CSO, Tonypandy 73 105 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda CSO AT CADWGAN TERRACE TREHAFOD 16 41 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Trehafod Pumping Station 51 39 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Herbert St CSO 16 29 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Lower Mill Street CSO Pontypridd 14 28 88
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Pellgwaun CSO 23 23 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda River Terrace CSO, Treorchy, Rhondda 23 10 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Lanelay Crescent CSO, Maesycoed 9 3 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Pwllgwaun Rd CSO, pontypridd 5 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Cymmer Rd CSO, Porth 4 1 100

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. 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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