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Pontypridd - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 5,236 hours in 2026 so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Pontypridd 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 - 2,151 hours
Feb - 3,085 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 Cilfynydd WwTW Storm Overflow River Taff 46 938 h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Row Abercynon Overflow River Cynon 44 872 h 26m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Dyffryn Isaf WwTW Storm Overflow River Ely 35 555 h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tonteg Road Taff Vale Storm Overflow River Taff 38 494 h 25m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pontcynon Pipe Bridge Storm Overflow River Cynon 35 461 h 38m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Abercynon Wood Road Storm Overflow River Taff 32 379 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Parish Road Beddau Storm Overflow Nant Myddlyn 35 330 h 17m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llanharan Storage Storm Overflow Ewenni Fach River 27 188 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Robert Street Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 26 175 h 2m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Crossbrook Street Storm Overflow River Taff 24 115 h 18m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glynmynach Street Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 25 114 h 36m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bethlehem View Fields Storm Overflow Ewenni Fach River 25 83 h 39m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water James Street Junction Overflow River Taff 8 75 h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water South of Lee Street Storm Overflow River Rhondda 20 72 h 42m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lanelay Park Storm Overflow River Ely 25 65 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Miskin Road Railway Storm Overflow River Cynon 17 54 h 59m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Oxford Street Miskin Road Storm Overflow River Cynon 12 37 h 2m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ynysangharad Park Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Taff 36 32 h 40m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Old Parish Road Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 15 32 h 37m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Gyfeillon Gardens Storm Overflow River Rhondda 24 26 h 54m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Treforest Lewistown Park Overflow River Taff 5 22 h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Clydach Road Ynysybwl Storm Overflow Nant Clydach 8 19 h 32m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Talbot Green Storm Overflow River Clun 7 18 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penycoedcae Storm Overflow Tributary of Nant Tyrarlwudd 23 17 h 40m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ynysybwl Road Taff Vale Overflow River Taff 17 13 h 30m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glassbrook Terrace Storm Overflow River Cynon 7 7 h 41m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Heol Saelm Garages Storm Overflow Nant Arian 4 6 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Duffryn Road Mountain Ash Overflow River Cynon 2 5 h 43m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lionel Terrace Storm Overflow River Taff 2 4 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water West Street Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Taff 3 3 h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water New Road Mountain Ash Storm Overflow River Cynon 3 3 h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Clydach Terrace Storm overflow Nant Clydach 3 2 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pavia Court Storm Overflow River Rhondda 3 1 h 27m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penrhiwceiber Point D Storm Overflow River Cynon 4 1 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Penrhiwceiber Station Storm Overflow River Cynon 3 0 h 46m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Poplar Road Rhydyfelin Overflow River Taff 1 0 h 23m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sheppard Street Storm Overflow River Rhondda 1 0 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cynon WwTW Storm Overflow River Taff 1 0 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ty Mawr Road Pontypridd Overflow River Rhondda 1 0 h 14m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Heol Miles Storm Overflow River Ely 1 0 h 14m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Martins Terrace Abercynon Overflow River Taff 1 0 h 13m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Llantwit Road Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Maesycoe Lanelay Crescent Storm Overflow River Rhondda 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Mountain Ash Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ynysangharad Park Bridge Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Hamilton Street Storm Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Place Cilfnydd 1 Storm Overflow Nant Caedudwg 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water St Annes Drive Llantwit Fardre Overflow Nant Clun 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cribbyn-Ddu Street Junction Storm Overflow River Clydach 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water High Street Pontypridd Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cynon Terrace Penrhiwceiber Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Glyn Dwr Avenue Pontypridd Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Mill Street Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Rhondda 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Castle Inn Bridge Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Road Abercynon Storm Overflow Sirhowy River 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bridgend Road Llanharan Overflow River Ewenni 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Alexandra Road Pontypridd Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Cardiff Road Pontypridd Storm Overflow River Taff 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Brynteg Park Storm Overflow Nant Cymdda Bach 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Hill Mountain Ash Overflow River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pwllgwaun Road Storm Overflow River Rhondda 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Low Row Cwmpennar Storm Overflow Tributary of River Cynon 0 0 h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Place Clifnydd 2 Storm Overflow Nant Cae-Dudwg 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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.