Caerphilly

Polluted by sewage 1,819 times in 2024 lasting 9,496 hours - That's 1.1 years!

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Caerphilly in 2024

36 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,819 sewage dumps
9,496 hours duration
That's 1.1 years! On average 5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Caerphilly in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 42 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO 20 OLD MILL NEWPORT ROAD 148 1,392 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Porset Brook CSO at Lansbury Park Estate 139 1,334 91.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CWM LAS CSO 115 1,149 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Glan-yr-Afon Nursing Home No2, Pengam 119 1,138 87.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Springfield Est CSO, Pontllanfraith 112 882 96.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Tredomen AFC CSO, Ystrad Mynach 95 824 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Y Aber Combined Sewer Overflow at Bryn Siriol 81 361 80.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Glan-yr-Afon Nursing Home 1 93 320 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Bottom of Nine Mile Point Colliery CSO 30 235 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Tir-y-Berth behind William St 67 197 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Old Tram Rd CSO, Pontllanfraith 55 163 95.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Forge Engineering CSO, Bedwas 41 150 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rymney MAESYCWMMER A472 JUNCTION CSO 55 145 73.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney A CSO AT YSTRAD MYNACH BRIDGE 82 137 97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney TRELYN LANE CSO FLEUR-DE-LIS 33 125 86.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cylla Oaks End Close CSO 46 124 90
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Pengham High St near Bridge 56 121 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River WVTS-WYLLIE HALT SSO 32 102 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Yr Aber Crossways Retail Park CSO 29 99 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River WVTS - Wattsville (Recreation Ground) CSO 47 87 93.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sirhowy River CSO 19 Gryphonn Concrete Products 84 85 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney BEDWAS SUNNYBANK FARM CSO 19 67 31.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Newport Rd CSO, Trethomas 25 56 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Yr Aber CSO Rear Commerc'l St Senghenydd 36 54 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO ASSET NO 90411 PENGAM 47 36 96.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Asset No. 32207 Celtic Steel Factory CSO 22 29 89
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney High St CSO, Glan-y-Nant 20 19 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Forge Rd CSO, Machen 21 16 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Yr Aber Graig-Y-Fedw CSO 26 16 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Cwm-Parc 64 Commercial Streetreet CSO, Senghenydd 16 8 98.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Yr Aber Windsor Place Senghenydd CSO 9 4 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhymney R - Nant Bargod Rhymni To Conf Nant Cyl Fleur-de-Lys - Rear of Glanddu CSO 5 4 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Islwyn Rd CSO, Crosskeys 9 2 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney CSO at Trelyn Park 2 1 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhymney River Old Prince Albert Hotel CSO, Hengoed 2 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant-Yr-Aber 86 Nantgarw Rd CSO 1 0 92.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney OLD PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL HENGOED 0 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW SERVING 0 0 57
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Yr Aber Abertridwr Coed Cae Road 1 CSO 0 0 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Caeach Combined Sewer Overflow at Rear of 33 Church Street 0 0 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhymney Rear of Williams St CSO 0 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Sirhowy Railway Cottages CSO, Cwmfelinfach 0 0 69.3

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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