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River Usk polluted by sewage 1,313 times in 2025 - lasting 9,285 hours

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Totals for River Usk in 2025
23 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
1,313 sewage dumps
9,285 h duration
That's 12.9 months. On average 3.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Usk 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 Usk USK STW GRAIG OLWAY FARM LLANGVIEW 87 1,453 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BRECON STW BRECON WWTW BRECON POWYS 85 1,429 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk SENNYBRIDGE ARMY CAMP STW 117 1,419 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk LLANGYBI STW LLANGYBI USK 234 1,345 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BWLCH (S) STW LLANGYNIDIR 107 872 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk ABERBAIDEN STW BEHIND HOP YARD FARM 113 578 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk LLANFOIST WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS ME 65 502 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk GARN PS CRICKHOWELL 53 274 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Mill Street Screens CSO Abergaven 69 263 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CSO at Christchurch WWTW 75 214 93.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Llangynidr (Coed-yr-Ynys) SPS 43 179 98.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk St Cadocs Hospital CSO 51 150 99.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk SPS at Brecon - Watton 10 Metres South Of 66 136 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Legar CSO 32 107 99.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk BRECON SEWERAGE SYSTEM 25 92 97.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL STW ABERGAVENNY ROAD 13 87 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Brecon Showfields CSO Brecon Powys 23 64 94.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL CSO 10 51 66.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk A Combined Sewer Overflow St Julian 31 34 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk CRICKHOWELL - BRIDGE END CAR P 3 24 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Brynawel Estate, Trecastle CSO 2 1 97.3
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Bridge St CSO 5 1 22.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Crickhowell - Bullpit Meadow S CSO 4 1 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Usk Caerleon Town Sewage Pumping Station 0 0 99.9

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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