Llanaelhaearn WwTW Overflow

Storm overflow run by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, discharging into Unnamed Watercourse.

Emergency Overflow
Right now
Discharging now
Since 13:00 on 30 Sep 2026 · 1 h 18 min so far.
Times are UK time · company feed updated 10 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
6spills
17 h discharging on 6 days · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
259spills
2,409 h · −15% on 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
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No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
99.8% 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.

2023
228 spills · 3,256 hmonitor 100%
2024
305 spills · 2,327 hmonitor 99.6%
2025
259 spills · 2,409 hmonitor 99.8%
2026since 28 Feb
6 spills · 17 h

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

Discharges we have recorded

1,834 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2023, 1 still open. 1,821 of them come from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Jan 2023 – Nov 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 1,834)
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
24 Sep 2026, 19:4520:0015 min
24 Sep 2026, 11:1512:0045 min
23 Sep 2026, 09:0011:002 h 0 min
2 Nov 2025, 22:4500:0059 d 1 h
2 Nov 2025, 19:0019:1515 min
2 Nov 2025, 16:4517:0015 min
1 Nov 2025, 22:1503:455 h 0 min
1 Nov 2025, 21:3021:4515 min
1 Nov 2025, 18:3018:4515 min
1 Nov 2025, 14:3014:4515 min
1 Nov 2025, 10:3010:4515 min
1 Nov 2025, 08:3009:0030 min
1 Nov 2025, 04:4507:152 h 0 min
31 Oct 2025, 22:4503:304 h 45 min
31 Oct 2025, 21:4522:0015 min
31 Oct 2025, 19:4520:0015 min
31 Oct 2025, 18:3019:0030 min
31 Oct 2025, 17:4518:0015 min
31 Oct 2025, 11:1514:453 h 30 min
31 Oct 2025, 09:4510:0015 min
30 Oct 2025, 20:4523:453 h 0 min
30 Oct 2025, 12:3012:4515 min
29 Oct 2025, 10:0011:451 h 15 min
29 Oct 2025, 06:3009:302 h 45 min
29 Oct 2025, 02:1505:153 h 0 min
28 Oct 2025, 23:3001:452 h 15 min
28 Oct 2025, 21:3021:4515 min
28 Oct 2025, 19:3019:4515 min
28 Oct 2025, 17:1517:3015 min
28 Oct 2025, 15:1515:3015 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 2,377 raw blocks were merged into 1,834 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Criccieth Raingauge, 12.8 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
Erch (Erch) · 5.4 km
Nearest rain gauge
Site reference
DCWW1678
Coordinates
52.98192, -4.40764

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.