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River Rhondda Fach polluted by sewage 1,037 times in 2025 - lasting 5,598 hours

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Totals for River Rhondda Fach in 2025
17 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,037 sewage dumps
5,598 h duration
That's 7.78 months. On average 2.8 times a day
Constituencies along River Rhondda Fach
Places along River Rhondda Fach

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Rhondda Fach 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 Fach Ferndale Road CSO Tylorstown RCT 86 903 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach R/O Tylorstown Primary School CSO, Tylorstown 115 868 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Rear of Fir St CSO, Ferndale 114 794 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Ferndale Banana Tip CSO Additional 82 555 89.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach CSO OPP 37 EDMONDES ST TYLORSTOWN 63 376 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach CSO at CROSS STREET YNYSHIR R-C-T 99 348 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Rear of Blake St CSO, Maerdy 77 337 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Station Rd CSO, Ferndale 97 278 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach FERNDALE BANANA TIP CSO 75 260 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Aberrhondda Road CSO 62 247 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Ferndale Banana Tip No.1 CSO 22 212 23.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Highfield Industrial Estate CSO, Ferndale 63 209 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Maerdy Station Road CSO 44 127 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach CSO at Wattstown-Bailey St Land Recla 15 35 71.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Blaenllechau Long Row CSO 14 33 80.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach James Terrace CSO 8 10 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach CSO at Ferndale btw Taff St & Station Rd 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fach Blaenllechau Taff St CSO 0 0 99.7

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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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