River Wye polluted by sewage 2,014 times in 2024 - lasting 14,640 hours

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Totals for River Wye in 2024
45 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
2,014 sewage dumps
14,640 h duration
That's 1.69 years! On average 5.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

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

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye PUMPING STATION AT MOCCAS STW 115 2,074 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye SPS AT EARDISLEY STW 108 1,765 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye EIGN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 121 1,283 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye MONMOUTH STW REDBROOK ROAD MONMOUTH 110 1,132 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye NEWLAND SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 140 1,103 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye JOYFORD MILL PUMPING STATION 52 816 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Builthwells WWTW CSO 39 637 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Storm Tanks at Rhayader STW 64 542 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Welsh Street Chepstow 106 492 98.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye SEDBURY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 78 476 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LYDBROOK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS SSO 46 418 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye WILTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 49 321 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Tintern Main SPS 55 319 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Monmouth 2 CSO 65 292 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye ST MARTINS ALLOTMENTS CSO HEREFORD 43 282 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye The Strand CSO, Church Street, Builth Wells 66 251 98.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREYFRIARS BRIDGE CSO 41 245 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye HOMS ROAD PUMPING STATION CSO 58 244 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye BELMONT ROUNDABOUT CSO 28 222 75.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Rhayader WwTW 56 203 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Hay-on-Wye (Main) SPS 74 188 74.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye ROSS LOWER CLEEVE WWTW 49 187 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CHURCH LANE STW CHURCH ROAD 63 181 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye HOPE AND ANCHOR CSO 60 154 96.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Glasbury STW Glasbury Nr Hay On Wye 35 100 99.95
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Glasbury STW Glasbury Nr Hay On Wye 34 99 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Thornwell Road CSO 63 88 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREAT HOUGH BROOK CSO 23 82 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye EIGN 1B COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 25 81 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye GREAT HOUGHBROOK PS ADJACENT TO FOR 5 52 10.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Newbridge on Wye STW 13 51 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Llangurig P.S. - Overflow 3 47 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye FOWNHOPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 27 46 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO Llanelwedd - Scout Hut Station Road 7 41 93.6
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye WYEBANK RD CSO 32 25 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Rhayader Fields St. Brides Church 8 24 98.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Llyswen STW Settled Storm 6 24 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye North Road CSO North Rd Builth Well 11 21 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Raglan Way CSO 23 9 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LLYSWEN STW CHURCH ROAD LLYSWEN 3 3 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LOWER LYDBROOK RIVER WYE CSO 5 2 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye NEWBRIDGE-ON-WYE STW POWYS 2 1 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Glasbury STW Glasbury Nr Hay On Wye 1 0 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye Hay-on-Wye (Warren Close) SPS 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye LEYMANS FIELD PS BRAEMAR GARDENS 1 0 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye CSO at Weun Chapel Park Toilets, Rhayader 0 0 99.3

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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