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River Alyn polluted by sewage 429 times in 2025 - lasting 1,792 hours

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Totals for River Alyn in 2025
19 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
429 sewage dumps
1,792 h duration
That's 2.49 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Alyn 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 River Alyn Cwmafan RFC CSO 65 605 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn MOLD WwTW 56 359 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn GRESFORD STW 36 217 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn LLANARMON-YN-IAL STW 59 177 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn CSO at Mynydd Isa Wylfa Hill 39 127 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn CSO Mynydd Isa Chambers Lane/Mercia Drive Nr 2 48 102 79.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn llay Chapel Lane CSO, opposite Garden Centre 15 42 58.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn CAERGWRLE - RHYDDYN HILL ROAD CSO 13 36 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Bridge Inn Pumping Station 12 36 90.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn PONTBLYDDYN NO 1 PUMPING STATION 3 27 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn CSO at Mold Gladstone St/Glan Yr Afon Rd 24 21 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn CSO at Mold Committee's Sewerage System 17 14 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Pandy SPS, Wrexham 16 12 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Mold Gas Lane CSO 10 5 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Mold Old St Davids Lane/Bridge St CSO 4 3 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Mold Football Club Drice CSO 4 2 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Cefn y Bedd PS 2 1 96.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn HOPE SARN LANE CSO 3 0 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Mold Argoed CSO 3 0 96.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Alyn Mold Bryn Coch Lane/Lon Y Parc CSO 0 0 99.5

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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