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Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,112 hours in 2026 so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 3,161 hours
Feb - 2,951 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Hirwaun Industrial Estate WwTW Storm Overflow Afon Camnant 45 1,003 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pontsticill WwTW Storm Overflow River Taff 41 899 h 20m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cilmery WwTW Storm Overflow Afon Chwefri 46 737 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Mikes Field Storm Overflow River Cynon 37 600 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Aberaman Park West Storm Overflow River Cynon 35 517 h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pontbren Storm Overflow River Cynon 29 296 h 26m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water East of Rounabout A4102 jct with High Street Storm Overflow Morlais Brook 31 258 h 2m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pontrhun Bridge Storm Overflow River Taff 30 211 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Oakland Street Bedlinog Storm Overflow River Taff 21 174 h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Monk Street No1 Storm Overflow River Cynon 28 166 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rocky Road 1 Storm Overflow Nant Morlais 15 139 h 23m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Meirion Street Roundabout Trecynon Storm Overflow River Cynon 26 130 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Gellifaelog Old Road Storm Overflow Morlais Brook 20 120 h 50m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Trelewis Glynbargoed Road Storm Overflow Pandy Brook 27 117 h 32m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dare Road Storm Overflow River Dare 14 99 h 51m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pant-Y-Cerdin Storm Overflow Aberdare Canal 20 91 h 57m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llwydcoed Road New Scales Houses Storm Overflow Unnamed Tribuatary of Afon Cynon 7 81 h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Merthyr Road Bridge Storm Overflow River Cynon 18 72 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Station Street Aberdare Storm Overflow River Cynon 18 72 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Maes Y Ffion Storm Overflow Nant-Y-Derlwyn 16 52 h 22m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bethesda Street Merthyr Tydfil Storm Overflow River Taff 20 51 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bro Deg 2 Storm Overflow River Cynon 14 38 h 22m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park Storm Overflow Pentrebach Brook 12 26 h 33m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Merthyr Tydfil College Car Park Storm Overflow River Taff 10 23 h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Gladstone Street Storm Overflow Tributary of Afon Aman 9 18 h 55m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cyfarthfa Road Storm Overflow River Taff 13 15 h 11m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pen-Y-Darren Rd jct with Gwalia Place Storm Overflow Morlais Brook 7 12 h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Trenant 1 Storm Overflow River Cynon 7 10 h 38m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tai Mawr Way Storm Overflow River Taff 6 9 h 41m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dean Street Aberdare Storm Overflow River Cynon 9 8 h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tan Y Bryn Gardens Llwydcoed Overflow River Cynon 6 7 h 10m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bro Deg 1 Storm Overflow River Cynon 8 6 h 57m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sion Terrace Storm Overflow River Cynon 3 5 h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nr Aberaman Park Ind. Est. Storm Overflow RiverAman 4 5 h 19m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bute Place Hirwaun Storm Overflow River Cynon 5 3 h 42m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wind Street Storm Overflow River Amman 5 3 h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tram Road Side Storm Overflow River Taff 5 2 h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Heol Pendarren Storm Overflow Ditch to Nant Gwrangon 3 2 h 39m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pit Place Cwmbach Overflow River Cynon 2 2 h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Fiddlers Elbow Quakers Yard Storm Overflow River Taff 2 1 h 58m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Swan Street Merthyr Tydfil Storm Overflow River Taff 2 1 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Abernant Road Aberdare Storm Overflow Nant Wenallt 1 1 h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Aberaman Curre Street Storm Overflow Unnamed Stream 3 1 h 18m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glancynon Terrace Storm Overflow Nant Gwawr 2 1 h 14m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pont-y-Cefn Storm Overflow Taf Fechan 1 1 h 14m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glan Road Storm Overflow River Dare 3 1 h 9m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bron Haul Storm Overflow River Cynon 1 0 h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Aberaman Storm Overflow River Cynon 2 0 h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Elizabeth Street Storm Overflow Tributary of River Cynon 2 0 h 41m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wellington St No1 Storm overflow River Cynon 1 0 h 29m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Canal Road Cwmbach Storm Overflow River Cynon 1 0 h 29m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Goitre Lane Storm Overflow Goitre Brook 1 0 h 29m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bro Deg Canal Road Junction Storm Overflow River Cynon 1 0 h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Market Street Dowlais Storm Overflow Unnamed Tributary Leading to Nant Morlais 1 0 h 17m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park View Terrace Storm Overflow River Cynon 1 0 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bryngolwg Storm Overflow River Cynon 1 0 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Aberfan Trunk Sewer Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Muriel Terrace Merthyr Tydfil Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cynon Street Storm Overflow Unnamed Tributary to Afon Amman 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Erw Las Rear Footpath Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Hirwaun Mangoed Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wyndham Crescent Aberaman Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Troedyrhiw Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Fforchaman Road Cwmaman River Amman 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Merthyr Vale Trunk Sewer Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Trecynon Harriet Street Storm Overflow Nant-Y-Derlwyn 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cwmbach Maeshyfryd Stoem Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Phyllis Street Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cwmbach Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water David Street Aberaman Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tudor Terrace Rear Storm Overflow Gadlys Feeder 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Hirwaun Tramway Storm Overflow Unnamed Stream 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Balaclava Road 2 Storm Overflow Morlais Brook 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Yew Street Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Foundry View Aberaman No 2 Storm Overflow River Amman 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rocky Road 2 Storm Overflow Morlais Brook 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Foundry View Aberaman No 1 Overflow River Amman 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Commercial Street Aberdare Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rodericks Terrace Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -

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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