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Cynon water levels

4 gauges from Hirwaun River Station to Abercynon River Station. None is above its typical high. 3 storm overflows upstream are discharging now. Gauges in Rhondda Cynon Taf; levels are checked every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Hirwaun River Station—0.37 m 16m agoWithin its typical range—
Aberdare River Station 6.3 km by river—0.38 m 16m agoWithin its typical range—
Mountain Ash River Station 6.2 km by river—1.03 m 31m agoWithin its typical range▼
Abercynon River Station 5.3 km by riverAbercynon0.68 m 16m agoWithin its typical range—

Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Cynon above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

No gauged tributary joins the Cynon above Abercynon River Station on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Cynon goes

Below Abercynon River Station, its water next reaches Pontypridd River Station, a gauge on Taff, 7.9 km by river downstream.

Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into the Cynon and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

Storm overflows upstream

45 storm overflows are traced upstream of Abercynon River Station, the Cynon’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Cynon itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 3 report discharging now
  • 39 not discharging
  • 3 offline or silent: 3 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Abercynon River Station: 1,765 spills over 9,154 hours in total, across the 42 that have a figure. 1 had no usable monitor data that year; 2 have no 2025 figure.

Each overflow is listed in the stretch above the first gauge its water reaches, from the source down, as on the Gauges tab. A stretch of the Cynon includes the smaller streams that join it there. Every overflow traced is listed here, each stretch in full. Back to the short lists →

Above Hirwaun River Station, the Cynon’s highest gauge3 overflows
  • Pontbren Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 2.8 km by river above Hirwaun River Station · 2025: 86 spills, 574 h
  • Bute Place Hirwaun Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 810 m by river above Hirwaun River Station · 2025: 40 spills, 89 h
  • Merthyr Road Bridge Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 100 m by river above Hirwaun River Station · 2025: 88 spills, 449 h
Between Hirwaun River Station and Aberdare River Station11 overflows
  • Trenant 1 Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 5.6 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 66 spills, 153 h
  • Hirwaun Mangoed Storm Overflow Monitor offline
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 5.2 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: no data
  • Erw Las Rear Footpath Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 4.3 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 52 spills, 177 h
  • Dare Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Dare · 2.8 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 98 spills, 526 h
  • Tan Y Bryn Gardens Llwydcoed Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 2.6 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 53 spills, 206 h
  • Maes Y Ffion Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Nant-Y-Derlwyn · 2.3 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 77 spills, 426 h
  • Trecynon Harriet Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Nant-Y-Derlwyn · 2.2 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Meirion Street Roundabout Trecynon Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 1.6 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 96 spills, 555 h
  • Glan Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Dare · 1.4 km by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 42 spills, 118 h
  • Wellington St No1 Storm Overflow Monitor offline
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 1000 m by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 7 spills, 2.0 h
  • Commercial Street Aberdare Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 220 m by river above Aberdare River Station · 2025: 60 spills, 37 h
Between Aberdare River Station and Mountain Ash River Station19 overflows · 2 discharging now
  • Dean Street Aberdare Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 6.1 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 50 spills, 85 h
  • Station Street Aberdare Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 6.1 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 84 spills, 307 h
  • Cardiff Road Aberaman Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 5.2 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 23 spills, 25 h
  • Well Place Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 5.1 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · no official annual figure
  • Glancynon Terrace Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Nant Gwawr · 4.7 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 25 spills, 11 h
  • David Street Aberaman Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 4.7 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 2 spills, 4.5 h
  • Pit Place Cwmbach Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 4.6 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 7 spills, 8.3 h
  • Wyndham Crescent Aberaman Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 4.3 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 3 spills, 1.3 h
  • Mikes Field Storm Overflow Discharging now since
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 4.0 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 121 spills, 1,592 h
  • Sion Terrace Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.7 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 19 spills, 51 h
  • Bro Deg Canal Road Junction Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.6 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 24 spills, 42 h
  • Aberaman Park West Storm Overflow Discharging now since
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.6 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 112 spills, 1,283 h
  • Cwmbach Maeshyfryd Stoem Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.5 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Bro Deg 1 Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.5 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 52 spills, 151 h
  • Cwmbach Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.5 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 3 spills, 10 h
  • Canal Road Cwmbach Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.3 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 16 spills, 23 h
  • Park View Terrace Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 3.0 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 7 spills, 3.8 h
  • Low Row Cwmpennar Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Tributary Of River Cynon · 1.2 km by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 5 spills, 8.8 h
  • Duffryn Road Mountain Ash Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 520 m by river above Mountain Ash River Station · 2025: 35 spills, 75 h
Between Mountain Ash River Station and Abercynon River Station12 overflows · 1 discharging now

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of the Cynon’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Hirwaun Tramway Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Unnamed Stream · 90 m from Hirwaun River Station in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Park Road Abercynon Storm Overflow Discharging now since
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Sirhowy River · 270 m from Abercynon River Station in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Woodland Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Afon River · 310 m from Mountain Ash River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · no official annual figure
  • Elizabeth Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Tributary Of River Cynon · 360 m from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 27 spills, 33 h
  • Wind Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Amman · 390 m from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 48 spills, 44 h
  • Monk Street No1 Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 540 m from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 93 spills, 444 h
  • Abernant Road Aberdare Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Nant Wenallt · 630 m from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 27 spills, 22 h
  • Aberaman Curre Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Unnamed Stream · 850 m from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 32 spills, 38 h
  • Tudor Terrace Rear Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Gadlys Feeder · 1000 m from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 6 spills, 3.3 h
  • Pant-Y-Cerdin Storm Overflow Monitor offline
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Aberdare Canal · 1.5 km from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 100 spills, 425 h
  • Cilmery WwTW Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Afon Chwefri · 1.9 km from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 119 spills, 957 h
  • Gladstone Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Tributary Of Afon Aman · 1.9 km from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 90 spills, 273 h
  • Cynon Street Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Unnamed Tributary To Afon Amman · 2.0 km from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Bron Haul Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 2.0 km from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 12 spills, 22 h
  • Bro Deg 2 Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Cynon · 2.1 km from Aberdare River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 70 spills, 214 h

9 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.

14 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Cynon’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.

A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, from its Storm Overflow Map. Annual figures for Wales: Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s return to Natural Resources Wales, as compiled by The Rivers Trust, Open Government Licence.