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Severn Estuary polluted by sewage 649 times in 2025 - lasting 6,769 hours

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Totals for Severn Estuary in 2025
12 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
649 sewage dumps
6,769 h duration
That's 9.4 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Severn Estuary 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 Severn Estuary RHYMNEY VALLEY TRUNK SEWER CSO 140 2,262 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary Kimberley Road CSO 117 1,906 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary WESTERN VALLEY TRUNK SEWER CSO 59 1,319 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary CARDIFF CENTRAL SPS TREMORFA 84 384 96.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary LLANTWIT MAJOR WWTW (STW) WICK ROAD 37 246 99.95
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary PENARTH HEAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 51 211 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary Settled Storm Overflow at Cardiff Eastern District Pumping Station 41 144 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary Penarth Marina SPS 8 90 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary BROCKHILL RISE & LAVERNOCK RD SSO'S 29 84 91.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary KYMIN PS PENARTH CARDIFF , 40 78 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary CARDIFF EAST DISTRICT LONG OUTFALL 41 41 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Estuary OCEAN PARK PS TREMORFA FORESHORE RO 2 2 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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