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Moretonhampstead STW, Moretonhampstd
Storm overflow at the works · SBB00807 · feeds MORETONHAMPSTEAD_STW_MORETONHAMPSTEAD
Dry spill
Evidence strength
High confidence- ✓ Sustained discharge (≥1 h)
- ✓ Dry across a 4-day antecedent window
- ✓ Rain gauge close (≤5 km)
The discharge
- Spill day
- Saturday, 20 May 2023
- Started
- 20 May 2023, 11:55
- Ended
- 20 May 2023, 15:46
- Duration
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Receiving water
- Wray Brook
- Parish
- Moretonhampstead
Rainfall evidence
Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Mardon Down) 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
| Date | Rainfall | |
|---|---|---|
| 20/05/2023 (spill day) | 0 mm | dry |
| 19/05/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 18/05/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 17/05/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 16/05/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
River flow that day: 2.979 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 3.2 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
- Not Applicable
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 SBB00807). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 323b21d8-c9a4-4681-bc5c-62d7337993ac. 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.