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Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign
Compton Castle
Combined sewer overflow · SBB00301 · feeds COMPTON AND MARLDON STW
Wet weather
The discharge
- Spill day
- Sunday, 17 December 2023
- Started
- 17 Dec 2023, 20:36
- Ended
- 18 Dec 2023, 08:40
- Duration
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Receiving water
- Aller Brook
- Parish
- Marldon
Rainfall evidence
Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Torbay Compton) 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: Wet weather3-day window: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
| Date | Rainfall | |
|---|---|---|
| 17/12/2023 (spill day) | 0 mm | dry |
| 16/12/2023 | 0.5 mm | rain |
| 15/12/2023 | 0.4 mm | rain |
| 14/12/2023 | 0.2 mm | dry |
| 13/12/2023 | 0.8 mm | rain |
River flow that day: 7.83 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 1.4 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
- Ahead of the works
- Yes — the treatment works' own overflow stayed shut that day, so capacity was available. Avoidable.
- EA annual return (2023)
- 142 counted spills · 2180 h total
- Monitor uptime (2023)
- 92% 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 SBB00301). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge e7e2f7d4-f497-4adc-b077-c20bc2dcedfa. 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.