Brynmawr Blackrock WwTW Storm Overflow

Storm overflow run by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, discharging into River Clydach.

Storm Overflow
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended 08:45 on 1 Oct 2026 (6 hours ago).
Times are UK time · company feed updated 13 min ago

"Not discharging" means the company's monitor reports no discharge right now — not that the water is clean. The feed publishes status only; no discharge volume is measured.

2026 so far
3spills
21 h discharging on 3 days · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
122spills
1,584 h · −17% on 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
—
No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
99.9% working
Share of the year the monitor reported

Year by year

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's annual Event Duration Monitoring return to Natural Resources Wales (12/24-hour spill count), as compiled by The Rivers Trust. 2026 is our own running count, the same way, from the live feed since 28 February (when we began keeping every discharge it reports) — so it can only be lower than the full year. The official figure is published next spring.

2023
no data
2024
147 spills · 1,971 hmonitor 99.9%
2025
122 spills · 1,584 hmonitor 99.9%
2026since 28 Feb
3 spills · 21 h

"No data" means the monitor was not working or not required to report that year — not zero.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is Llanfoist Bridge Abergavenny (Usk), 14.9 km along the river.

A river gauge measures the level of the river; it does not measure this overflow's discharge, and a spill does not by itself explain a change there. Traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Discharges we have recorded

662 discharge periods since 2 Jan 2020. 658 of them come from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Jan 2020 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 662)
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
12 Dec 2025, 03:3013:4510 h 15 min
11 Dec 2025, 22:4523:3045 min
11 Dec 2025, 19:1520:451 h 30 min
5 Dec 2025, 14:0014:306 d 0 h
4 Dec 2025, 02:0000:4522 h 45 min
3 Dec 2025, 07:4511:454 h 0 min
1 Dec 2025, 02:3007:152 d 4 h
28 Nov 2025, 22:0023:001 d 1 h
28 Nov 2025, 13:4515:452 h 0 min
24 Nov 2025, 13:1513:4530 min
24 Nov 2025, 02:1512:4510 h 30 min
23 Nov 2025, 20:3022:452 h 15 min
23 Nov 2025, 11:0014:303 h 30 min
23 Nov 2025, 03:3009:306 h 0 min
22 Nov 2025, 12:0017:305 h 30 min
19 Nov 2025, 09:4515:005 h 15 min
19 Nov 2025, 03:1505:001 h 45 min
16 Nov 2025, 08:3016:007 h 15 min
11 Nov 2025, 05:1505:004 d 23 h
9 Nov 2025, 14:1501:151 d 11 h
7 Nov 2025, 15:0022:307 h 30 min
6 Nov 2025, 17:4520:152 h 30 min
6 Nov 2025, 08:0010:302 h 30 min
2 Nov 2025, 23:4503:453 d 4 h
31 Oct 2025, 21:4515:451 d 18 h
31 Oct 2025, 13:0020:007 h 0 min
31 Oct 2025, 08:3008:4515 min
30 Oct 2025, 20:0006:1510 h 15 min
29 Oct 2025, 00:0014:4514 h 30 min
25 Oct 2025, 19:0001:156 h 15 min

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures; the monitor log's 719 raw blocks were merged into 662 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Carno Reservoir Raingauge, 4.5 km away. Brown shading = when this overflow was discharging; ▼ = a discharge start.

Overflow shading is a timing match, not proof of cause — heavy rain and spills share a trigger. Times come from the water company’s event-duration monitor (site status only; no discharge volume is published).

Where it is

Nearest river gauge
Nearest rain gauge
Site reference
DCWW438
Coordinates
51.80470, -3.15000

Concerned about this overflow?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Live status: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, from its Storm Overflow Map. Spill-event history: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's published EDM start/stop records. Annual figures: The Rivers Trust EDM compilation, © Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water, Open Government Licence. Times are shown in UK local time. FloodRadar republishes the monitor's status; it does not measure discharges itself.