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River Wye polluted by sewage 1,098 times in 2025 - lasting 6,872 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wye 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 Wye CSO at Welsh Street Chepstow 130 1,054 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye NEWLAND SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 91 862 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye SPS AT EARDISLEY STW 37 529 94.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye MONMOUTH STW REDBROOK ROAD MONMOUTH 43 435 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye EIGN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 47 405 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye JOYFORD MILL PUMPING STATION 24 375 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye SEDBURY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 59 332 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Tintern Main SPS 20 326 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye PUMPING STATION AT MOCCAS STW 21 300 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye The Strand CSO, Church Street, Builth Wells 64 276 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye HOPE AND ANCHOR CSO 56 273 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LYDBROOK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS SSO 24 251 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Glasbury STW Glasbury Nr Hay On Wye 38 232 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Storm Tanks at Rhayader STW 40 216 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Monmouth 2 CSO 38 140 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CHURCH LANE STW CHURCH ROAD 18 104 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Rhayader WwTW 41 99 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye ROSS LOWER CLEEVE WWTW 21 99 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye ST MARTINS ALLOTMENTS CSO HEREFORD 31 96 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Thornwell Road CSO 49 63 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye HOMS ROAD PUMPING STATION CSO 23 61 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Hay-on-Wye (Main) SPS 40 54 90.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye BELMONT ROUNDABOUT CSO 9 50 94.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye NEWBRIDGE-ON-WYE STW POWYS 26 43 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREYFRIARS BRIDGE CSO 15 32 92.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye FOWNHOPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 10 29 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye WYEBANK RD CSO 28 29 78.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye WILTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 26 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye EIGN 1B COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 24 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREAT HOUGH BROOK CSO 10 13 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO Llanelwedd - Scout Hut Station Road 2 11 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye North Road CSO North Rd Builth Well 11 8 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Raglan Way CSO 12 7 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREAT HOUGHBROOK PS ADJACENT TO FOR 3 4 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Rhayader Fields St. Brides Church 4 1 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LOWER LYDBROOK RIVER WYE CSO 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Weun Chapel Park Toilets, Rhayader 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Hay-on-Wye (Warren Close) SPS 0 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LLYSWEN STW CHURCH ROAD LLYSWEN 0 0 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LEYMANS FIELD PS BRAEMAR GARDENS 0 0 99.9

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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