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Sirhowy River polluted by sewage 598 times in 2025 - lasting 2,076 hours

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Totals for Sirhowy River in 2025
13 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
598 sewage dumps
2,076 h duration
That's 2.88 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sirhowy River 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 Sirhowy River CSO 20 OLD MILL NEWPORT ROAD 111 1,022 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Blackwood Cwmgelli CSO 66 205 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO at Tredegar, Vicarage Road Rear of Hill Rest 56 178 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO 19 Gryphonn Concrete Products 85 139 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Blackwood Oakdale Rhiw Hill CSO 41 105 89.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River WVTS - Wattsville (Recreation Ground) CSO 40 100 94.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO 32084 Scwrfa Road, Tredegar 43 96 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO CWM ROAD ARGOED CAERPHILLY 23 71 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River WVTS-WYLLIE HALT SSO 33 53 98
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Tredegar Vale Terrace R/O 61 40 42 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Morgan St CSO, Tredegar 38 42 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Markham Colliery Gun Club CSO 12 10 89.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River Tredegar Ladies Row CSO o/s School Entrance 10 9 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO AT REAR OF NO1 ALEXANDRA PLACE 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. 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.

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