High Street West Abertillery Overflow

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

Emergency Overflow
Right now
Not discharging
Times are UK time · company feed updated 11 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
0spills
0 h discharging · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
2spills
0.5 h · up from 0 in 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
—
No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
97.1% 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.

2022
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 100%
2023
1 spill · 0.3 hmonitor 97.1%
2024
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 99.0%
2025
2 spills · 0.5 hmonitor 97.1%
2026since 28 Feb
0 spills · 0 h

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

Other outlets here

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water runs 4 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge into River Tillery. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

71m High Street Abertillery Storm OverflowDCWW2250 —no 2025 figure
108m Glan Ebbw Terrace Storm OverflowDCWW380 —no 2025 figure
121m Station Hill Abertillery Storm OverflowDCWW750 —no 2025 figure
288m Abertillery Tillery Street Storm OverflowDCWW2163 —no 2025 figure

This overflow: 2 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is Risca River Station (Ebbw), 18.2 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

3 discharge periods since 28 Apr 2023. 3 of them come from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Apr 2023 – Feb 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures.

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Cwmtillery Raingauge, 2.8 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
DCWW1705
Coordinates
51.73010, -3.13609

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.