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Teign Village STW, Teign Valley

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Teign Village STW, Teign Valley

Storm overflow at the works · SBB01215 · feeds TEIGN VILLAGE_STW_TEIGN VALLEY
Dry spill

Evidence strength

Medium confidence
  • Dry across a 4-day antecedent window
  • Short discharge (<1 h) — weaker signal
  • Monitor only 75% operational that year — data may be incomplete

The discharge

Spill day
Monday, 30 January 2023
Started
30 Jan 2023, 11:17
Ended
30 Jan 2023, 11:32
Duration
14 minutes 41 seconds
Receiving water
Teign (Lower)
Parish
Hennock

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Bovey Tracey) for the spill day and the days before. A spill is dry when every day in the window is ≤ 0.25 mm.

1-day window: Dry spill3-day window: Dry spill4-day window: Dry spill
DateRainfall
30/01/2023 (spill day)0 mmdry
29/01/20230.1 mmdry
28/01/20230 mmdry
27/01/20230 mmdry
26/01/20230 mmdry

River flow that day: 5.19 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.8 km apart. Closer means the rainfall reading is more representative of the overflow.

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Severity & context

Bathing water
Not Applicable
Shellfish water
Teign Estuary
EA annual return (2023)
131 counted spills · 415 h total
Monitor uptime (2023)
75% operational
Method & provenance. Dry/wet classification is decided by rainfall at the nearest EA gauge — ≤ 0.25 mm on the spill day and each preceding day of the window (how we classify). Spill data: Environment Agency EDM (outlet SBB01215). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge de3285a5-0abf-4c5b-8ee2-63187f9124ae. A dry spill is precautionary evidence of a likely fault, not proof of an offence — we test the rainfall, not the works' flow. Generated by River Teign Data.