Swansea Bay polluted by sewage 427 times in 2023 - lasting 3,207 hours

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Totals for Swansea Bay in 2023
10 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
427 sewage dumps
3,207 h duration
That's 4.45 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Swansea Bay 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 Swansea Bay AFAN WWTW PHOENIX WHARF HARBOUR RD 204 2,866 93.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay SWO. NEAR NORTON AVENUE (POINT 82 119 84.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Swansea Waste Water Treatment Works 19 80 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Sketty Green CSO 13 64 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay ABBEY SPS BRITISH STEEL SITE 18 38 94
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL D1 (CSO 10) JUN OF MUMBLES 28 13 98.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Duns Lane/Park street CSO 25 12 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Storm Overflow at Outfall G via CSO 16 27 8 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay FAIRWOOD RD/LYNDEN TREE P H SWANSEA 7 2 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL E (CSO 14) JUN OF MUMBLES R 4 1 94.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL A (CSO 201) JUN OF MUMBLES 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OFF LLIPUT LANE POINT 130 CSO SWAN 0 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL K (CSO 264) JUN OF MUMBLES 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. 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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