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Lower Clydach River

A stream near Rhyd-y-gwin, Swansea. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Lower Clydach River is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Rhyd-y-gwin, Swansea, with about 12 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Afon Tawe (River Tawe) and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Ynystanglws River Station on Afon Tawe (River Tawe), about 1.8 km along the river below where Lower Clydach River ends on the map.

0.94 m Normal · falling 15 min ago

After that, Morfa River Station, about 7.5 km along the river.

No gauge measures Lower Clydach River itself. A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed it, mixed with everything else that has joined on the way, so it says nothing exact about this stream.

Storm overflows on Lower Clydach River

2 storm overflows are placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Hebron Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Lower Afon Clydach · 2025: 69 spills, 225 h
Heol Eithrym Storm Overflow Not discharging
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Lower Afon Clydach · 2025: 51 spills, 216 h

A status says whether an overflow is discharging now, never how much or why. A monitor that is offline or has not reported is not “not discharging”. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, from its Storm Overflow Map. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Rhyd-y-gwin, Craig-cefn-parc, Faerdre, Penydre, Graigfelen, Cae'r-graig, Aber-Clydach, Cae-mawr.

On the map

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The blue line is Lower Clydach River; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Afon Tawe (River Tawe), the river it joins →All rivers with gauges →

What this page can and cannot tell you

Its line, its name and where it flows come from Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small streams, ditches and culverts. “Flows into” is the map’s word: a channel that is not on the map is not shown here, which does not mean it is not there.
No gauge measures Lower Clydach River itself, so its own level is not known here.
Storm overflows are listed only where the river map places them on this stream; an overflow it could not place is not counted.
No water-sampling point with a banked sample is placed on this stream. Only England’s samples are banked, and only where the map can place their sampling point.
Nothing on this page says whether any place floods. For an address, see its postcode page.