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Swansea Bay polluted by sewage 407 times in 2025 - lasting 3,441 hours

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Totals for Swansea Bay in 2025
14 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
407 sewage dumps
3,441 h duration
That's 4.78 months. On average 1.1 times a day
Places along Swansea Bay

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Swansea Bay 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 Swansea Bay BAGLAN SPS BRITON FERRY NEATH 154 1,876 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay AFAN WWTW 74 968 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay AFAN WWTW PHOENIX WHARF HARBOUR RD 21 138 75.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL A (CSO 201) JUN OF MUMBLES 13 110 97.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Duns Lane/Park street CSO 26 105 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Swansea Waste Water Treatment Works 10 100 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay SWO. NEAR NORTON AVENUE (POINT 71 90 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay ABBEY SPS BRITISH STEEL SITE 10 39 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL D1 (CSO 10) JUN OF MUMBLES 11 5 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay FAIRWOOD RD/LYNDEN TREE P H SWANSEA 9 2 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Sketty Green CSO 3 2 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay Storm Overflow at Outfall G via CSO 16 2 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL E (CSO 14) JUN OF MUMBLES R 2 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OUTFALL K (CSO 264) JUN OF MUMBLES 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swansea Bay OFF LLIPUT LANE POINT 130 CSO SWAN 0 0 100

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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