River Tawe polluted by sewage 2,173 times in 2024 - lasting 16,144 hours

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Totals for River Tawe in 2024
30 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
2,173 sewage dumps
16,144 h duration
That's 1.87 years! On average 6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tawe in 2024. 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 193 3,472 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Settled Storm Sewage from Ystradgynlais WwTW 86 1,619 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe YSTRADGYNLAIS WWTW OFF WIND ROAD 92 1,372 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Inco CSO Clydach Swansea 135 1,198 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Craig Y Duke Trebanos SOC 120 905 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Ynysforgan Roundabout 99 862 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Rear of Canal Cottage CSO, Abercrave 143 807 88.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 104 NEWBRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STAT 63 723 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Ynysmeudw Warehouse (SOC 95 663 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe WYCHTREE STREET CSO MORRISTON 79 588 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at O/S 17 Glantawe Row Ystradgynlais 111 522 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Rear of Lonlas Station Road Abercrave 105 486 94.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Nr Gough Arms MH CSO 93 393 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Godre'r Graig SOC 20. Godre'r 53 388 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pontardawe Leis Centre CSO Swansea 78 341 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 70 A4067 Nthbnd Landore Swansea 96 302 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe SWN YR AFON CSO, Ystradgynlais 68 245 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO M'HOLE 14 ABERCRAVE ST.DAVIDS C 69 198 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at MH 92 nr Claypon Bridge, Ystradgynlais 28 189 98.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO 12 B4599 Road Bridge 54 169 68
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Glais CSO 36 117 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Glais SPS 36 117 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Bonymaen Rd CSO 61 88 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Office Row Car Park Ystalyfera CSO 40 88 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO at Mason Arms, Ystradgynlais 19 77 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pentrechwyth Rd CSO 49 67 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Opp 74 Bonymaen Rd CSO, Swansea , 55 65 93.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe Pontardawe 2 To R Tawe CSO Swansea 12 37 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe SWO.M'HOLE12 CWMTAWE FM PENRHOS 3 28 4.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Ynystawe (Point 86 New Ma) 2 9 5.7
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 16.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Tawe CSO Near Chemical Rd. Morriston 0 0 99.2

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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