River Taff polluted by sewage 1,506 times in 2023 - lasting 13,100 hours

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Totals for River Taff in 2023
26 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,506 sewage dumps
13,100 h duration
That's 1.52 years! On average 4.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Taff in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Settled Storm at Cynon Valley Wastewater Treatment Works 167 2,789 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Tongwynlais CSO 131 2,592 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Cilfynydd STW Cilfynydd Pontypridd Settled Storm 146 2,461 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Tonteg Road, Upper Boat CSO and Pumping Station Emergency Overflow 160 1,486 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff CASTLE INN CSO ASSET NO 32280 157 1,277 97.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Abercynon Wood Rd SPS 79 511 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff A CSO AT JACKSONS BRIDGE 99 343 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff YNYSANGHARAD PARK CSO 91 319 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Ynys Bridge CSO 47 297 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Gellideg Tai Mawr Rd CSO, Merthyr Tydfil 58 212 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff CSO COLLEGE CAR PK MERTHYR TYDFIL 56 197 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Crossbrook St CSO, Pontypridd 60 128 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Rhydfelin CSO Off Lionel Terrace 17 128 79.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Quakers Yard CSO, Fiddlers Elbow St, Cynon 41 124 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Quakers Yard CSO, Greenfield Victoria Bridge 22 103 40.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff CSO Avenue De Clichy, Merthyr 27 38 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Pontypridd West Street CSO 40 20 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Phyllis Street CSO, Troedyrhiw 34 16 92.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Merthyr Tydfil Georgetown Lines Bridge CSO 29 15 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Cardiff Wood St/Havelock St Jn CSO 18 11 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff YNYSANGHARAD HIGH LEVEL RELIEF CSO 2 9 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Troedyrhiw, Yew Street CSO 5 6 83.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Park Street PS 12 4 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Sion Street Sewage Pumping Station 2 4 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff TROEDYRHIW PS 4 4 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff 3rd Trunk CSO South of Glan Yr Afon 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff TRUNK CSO 2A OFF ABERFAN ROAD 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff CSO WILLOW GAS WORKS MERTHYR TYDFIL 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Taff Taff St CSO, Pontypridd 0 0 58.5

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. This 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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