River Tawe polluted by sewage 2,592 times in 2023 - lasting 22,776 hours

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Totals for River Tawe in 2023
29 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
2,592 sewage dumps
22,776 h duration
That's 2.64 years! On average 7.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tawe 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 Tawe TREBANOS Wastewater Treament Works 208 4,059 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Settled Storm Sewage from Ystradgynlais WwTW 169 3,264 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Inco CSO Clydach Swansea 180 2,140 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Rear of Lonlas Station Road Abercrave 253 2,110 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Rear of Canal Cottage CSO, Abercrave 152 1,883 96.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Craig Y Duke Trebanos SOC 147 1,288 77.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Ynysforgan Roundabout 105 1,210 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Ynysmeudw Warehouse (SOC 109 906 95
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 104 NEWBRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STAT 83 864 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe WYCHTREE STREET CSO MORRISTON 94 824 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at O/S 17 Glantawe Row Ystradgynlais 127 787 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Nr Gough Arms MH CSO 117 639 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pontardawe Leis Centre CSO Swansea 93 434 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 70 A4067 Nthbnd Landore Swansea 106 358 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Godre'r Graig SOC 20. Godre'r 40 351 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 12 B4599 Road Bridge 76 244 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe SWN YR AFON CSO, Ystradgynlais 74 200 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at MH 92 nr Claypon Bridge, Ystradgynlais 39 190 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO M'HOLE 14 ABERCRAVE ST.DAVIDS C 63 184 51
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Office Row Car Park Ystalyfera CSO 51 146 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Glais CSO 43 129 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Glais SPS 43 129 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Bonymaen Rd CSO 71 113 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Mason Arms, Ystradgynlais 26 83 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pentrechwyth Rd CSO 57 81 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe SWO.M'HOLE12 CWMTAWE FM PENRHOS 19 75 76.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pontardawe 2 To R Tawe CSO Swansea 16 45 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Opp 74 Bonymaen Rd CSO, Swansea , 30 32 49
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Near Chemical Rd. Morriston 1 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at QUARRY ROAD CLYDACH (POINT 125) 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Heol Y Nant/Sybil Street Clydach CSO 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Ynystawe (Point 86 New Ma) 0 0 0
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CAMBRIAN PLACE POINT 120 , , 0 0 0

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.

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