Pontyates Heol Y Meinciau Storm Overflow

Storm overflow run by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, discharging into Gwendraeth Fawr.

Storm Overflow
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (6 hours ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated just now

"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
19spills
at least 44 h discharging on 20 days · live feed since 23 Sep, not yet official · 14 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
63spills
685 h · +21% on 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
—
No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
82.6% 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 23 September (when we began keeping every discharge it reports) — so it can only be lower than the full year. The feed reports only each overflow's latest discharge, so a discharge it moved past before we saw it end is counted as one spill with no hours: the hours are a floor. The official figure is published next spring.

2022
42 spills · 195 hmonitor 100%
2023
72 spills · 556 hmonitor 99.9%
2024
52 spills · 279 hmonitor 98.7%
2025
63 spills · 685 hmonitor 82.6%
2026since 23 Sep
19 spills · at least 44 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 2 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge into Gwendraeth Fawr. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

145m Heol Nazareth Pontyates Storm OverflowDCWW2197 —no 2025 figure

This overflow: 63 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Discharges we have recorded

422 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2020, 14 whose end the feed never gave. 386 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 422)
StartedEndedDischarge time
not captured, before not captured
2 min
28 min
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before 2 h 45 min
15 min
2 h 15 min
11 h 5 min
15 min
16 min
not captured, before not captured
15 min
not captured, before not captured
15 min
27 min
3 min
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before not captured
27 min
not captured, before not captured
25 min
not captured, before 1 h 45 min
14 h 30 min
not captured, before not captured
15 min
1 h 0 min
1 d 14 h
3 d 18 h
2 d 0 h

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 682 raw blocks were merged into 422 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 11 states. The feed publishes its status now and its latest discharge, nothing older; the discharges above are read from this. It is here so the figures can be checked.

Show the last 11 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Llangendeirne River Station, 5.4 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
Pontyates River Station (Gwendraeth Fawr) · 0.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Site reference
DCWW1125
Coordinates
51.75416, -4.21831

Tell me when this overflow discharges

One message when the company's monitor reports a new discharge here. At most one every 6 hours.

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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.