Efailnewydd WwTW Storm Overflow

Storm overflow run by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, discharging into Unnamed Tributary Of The Afon Rhyd Hir.

Storm Overflow
Right now
Monitor offline
The company reports this overflow’s monitor as offline, so it cannot say whether it is discharging.
Times are UK time · company feed updated 9 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
1spill
0.5 h discharging on 1 day · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
281spills
1,145 h · +353% on 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
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No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
92.8% 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.

2024
62 spills · 99 hmonitor 100%
2025
281 spills · 1,145 hmonitor 92.8%
2026since 28 Feb
1 spill · 0.5 h

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

Discharges we have recorded

5,286 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2020. 5,285 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 5,286)
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
6 Dec 2025, 10:0015:455 h 0 min
6 Dec 2025, 06:4509:302 h 15 min
6 Dec 2025, 02:1506:153 h 30 min
5 Dec 2025, 19:0001:456 h 0 min
5 Dec 2025, 18:0018:1515 min
5 Dec 2025, 17:0017:1515 min
5 Dec 2025, 15:0016:301 h 15 min
5 Dec 2025, 13:3014:1530 min
5 Dec 2025, 12:3012:4515 min
5 Dec 2025, 11:4512:0015 min
5 Dec 2025, 11:0011:1515 min
5 Dec 2025, 07:1510:302 h 15 min
5 Dec 2025, 06:3006:4515 min
5 Dec 2025, 05:4506:0015 min
5 Dec 2025, 05:0005:1515 min
5 Dec 2025, 04:1504:3015 min
5 Dec 2025, 02:4503:4545 min
5 Dec 2025, 02:0002:1515 min
5 Dec 2025, 00:0001:301 h 0 min
4 Dec 2025, 21:4523:301 h 15 min
4 Dec 2025, 20:3021:1530 min
4 Dec 2025, 19:1520:0030 min
4 Dec 2025, 18:3018:4515 min
4 Dec 2025, 13:0018:003 h 45 min
4 Dec 2025, 04:3012:306 h 0 min
3 Dec 2025, 23:1504:003 h 15 min
3 Dec 2025, 17:0022:304 h 15 min
3 Dec 2025, 11:0016:304 h 15 min
3 Dec 2025, 05:1510:303 h 30 min
3 Dec 2025, 04:0004:4545 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 7,263 raw blocks were merged into 5,286 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Abersoch Raingauge, 9.7 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
Erch (Erch) · 6.9 km
Nearest rain gauge
Site reference
DCWW610
Coordinates
52.89262, -4.45402

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.