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Morlais water levels

1 gauge, at Llangennech River Station. It is not above its typical high. 1 storm overflow upstream is discharging now. Gauges in Carmarthenshire; levels are checked every 15 minutes.

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1overflow upstream discharging

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Llangennech River StationLlangennech0.69 m 17m 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 Morlais above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.

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

Where the Morlais goes

No gauge below Llangennech River Station is known on the river map.

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.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Llangennech River Station, the Morlais’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Morlais itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 1 reports discharging now
  • 0 not discharging
  • 0 offline or silent: 0 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Llangennech River Station: 150 spills over 2,825 hours.

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 Morlais includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Llangennech River Station, the Morlais’s highest gauge1 overflow · 1 discharging now
  • Llannon WwTW Storm Overflow Discharging now since
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Afon Morlais · 7.4 km by river above Llangennech River Station · 2025: 150 spills, 2,825 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Pontardulais Road Llangennech Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Afon Morlais · 90 m from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · too close to Llangennech River Station to say which side · 2025: 31 spills, 98 h
  • Llangennech Recreation Ground Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Loughor · 850 m from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · no official annual figure
  • Gorseinon Grovesend Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Llwchwr Estuary · 1.9 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 64 spills, 260 h
  • Llannant WwTW Storm Overflow Discharging now since
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Tributary Of Afon Llwchwr · 2.2 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 122 spills, 2,061 h
  • Bryngwili Road Green Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Gwili · 2.4 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 19 spills, 27 h
  • Hendy Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Gwili · 2.4 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Hendy Arlan Gwili Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Gwili · 2.4 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 52 spills, 35 h
  • Pontadulais Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Loughor · 2.7 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 13 spills, 81 h
  • Pontardulais Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Loughor · 2.7 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 35 spills, 234 h
  • Iscoed Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Loughor · 2.7 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 78 spills, 322 h
  • Loughor Brynafon Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
    Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Tributary Of Loughor Estuary · 3.0 km from Llangennech River Station in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 12 spills, 65 h

2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Morlais’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.