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River Rhymney polluted by sewage 1,505 times in 2025 - lasting 8,915 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Rhymney 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 Rhymney A CSO 700M SE OF PLAS MACHEN COTAGE 102 1,509 85.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Glan-yr-Afon Nursing Home No2, Pengam 110 1,203 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CWM LAS CSO 82 864 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Abertysswg Rugby Playing Field CSO 92 793 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Tredomen AFC CSO, Ystrad Mynach 72 582 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney A CSO AT PONTLOTTYN 89 572 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO At New Tredegar Adj Rhosyn Gwyn 38 440 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Storm Water Overflow at Began, St Mellons 93 412 96.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Ball Lane CSO 45 280 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Glan-yr-Afon Nursing Home 1 69 253 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO NEAR RHYMNEY STATION 58 244 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney BEDWAS SUNNYBANK FARM CSO 45 225 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Pengham High St near Bridge 49 206 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Tir-y-Berth behind William St 63 192 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO AT REAR OF MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 58 188 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney A CSO AT YSTRAD MYNACH BRIDGE 57 178 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Rhymney Carno St Bute House CSO 48 144 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney TRELYN LANE CSO FLEUR-DE-LIS 37 130 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO BARGOED 55 101 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO Nr Bethania Cottages 54 99 69.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Forge Engineering CSO, Bedwas 24 67 97.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO Opposite Bowen Ind Estate, Aberbargoed 36 60 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at rear of Margaret St., Gilfach 24 44 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO ASSET NO 90411 PENGAM 40 36 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Asset No. 32207 Celtic Steel Factory CSO 17 27 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney High St CSO, Glan-y-Nant 12 18 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Fishponds Road No22 CSO, Llanrumey 10 14 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Newport Rd CSO, Trethomas 6 7 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Forge Rd CSO, Machen 8 6 90.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney A CSO AT BIRTHDIR NEAR STATION 3 5 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Rumney Hill CSO 4 5 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Trelyn Park 4 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Bridge Road, St Mellons, Cardiff 1 0 97.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Aberbargoed CSO 0 0 96.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW SERVING 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney OLD PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL HENGOED 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Rear of Williams St CSO 0 0 100

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.

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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