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Lustleigh STW, Bovey Tracey

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Lustleigh STW, Bovey Tracey

Storm overflow at the works · SBB00722 · feeds LUSTLEIGH_STW_BOVEY TRACEY
Dry spill

Evidence strength

High confidence
  • Dry across a 4-day antecedent window
  • Rain gauge close (≤5 km)
  • Monitor 100% operational that year
  • Short discharge (<1 h) — weaker signal

The discharge

Spill day
Sunday, 4 December 2022
Started
4 Dec 2022, 04:58
Ended
4 Dec 2022, 05:48
Duration
49 minutes 52 seconds
Receiving water
Wray Brook
Parish
Lustleigh

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
04/12/2022 (spill day)0 mmdry
03/12/20220 mmdry
02/12/20220 mmdry
01/12/20220 mmdry
30/11/20220.2 mmdry

River flow that day: 6.845 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 2.6 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 (2022)
44 counted spills · 705 h total
Monitor uptime (2022)
100% 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 SBB00722). 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.
Spill evidence — Lustleigh STW, Bovey Tracey — River Teign Data