River Usk polluted by sewage 1,864 times in 2023 - lasting 15,439 hours

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Totals for River Usk in 2023
29 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,864 sewage dumps
15,439 h duration
That's 1.79 years! On average 5.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Usk 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 Usk Llangybi STW Llangybi Usk Settled Storm 234 2,097 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk GOYTRE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS NANT Setteled Storm 122 1,983 96
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Sennybridge Wastewater Treatment Works Storm Sewage Overflow 151 1,777 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Settled Storm Sewage from Brecon Wastewater Treatment Works 87 1,745 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Usk STW Settled Storm 136 1,555 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CSO at BWLCH SOUTH WwTW 129 1,086 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Settled Storm Sewage Tanks at Pandy WwTW 62 884 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CSO at Christchurch WWTW 131 603 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Settled Storm Sewage from Llanfoist Wastewater Treatment Works 60 527 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BRECON STW BRECON WWTW BRECON POWYS 25 489 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Crickhowell Settled Storm at STW 85 463 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Brecon Showfields CSO Brecon Powys 56 433 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Usk Road PS Usk Road Caerleon 42 385 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk LLANFOIST WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS ME 21 257 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk St Cadocs Hospital CSO 79 229 97.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk SPS at Brecon - Watton 10 Metres South Of 84 179 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk USK STW GRAIG OLWAY FARM LLANGVIEW 11 156 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Legar CSO 75 153 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk GARN PS CRICKHOWELL 47 108 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Mill Street Screens CSO Abergaven 56 95 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Llangynidr (Coed-yr-Ynys) SPS 38 82 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk A Combined Sewer Overflow St Julian 49 47 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Caerleon Town Sewage Pumping Station 39 38 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BRECON SEWERAGE SYSTEM 10 20 17
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL CSO 13 18 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL - BRIDGE END CAR P 4 12 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Crickhowell - Bullpit Meadow S CSO 10 3 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Brynawel Estate, Trecastle CSO 7 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Bridge St CSO 1 0 7.5

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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