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Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign
Highweek Rd, Newton Abbot
Combined sewer overflow · SBB00887 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Wet weather
The discharge
- Spill day
- Tuesday, 27 January 2026
- Started
- 27 Jan 2026, 17:38
- Ended
- 27 Jan 2026, 18:54
- Duration
- 1 hour 16 minutes
- Receiving water
- Lemon
- Parish
- Newton Abbot
Rainfall evidence
Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Bickington) 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 27/01/2026 (spill day) | 9.1 mm | rain |
| 26/01/2026 | 49.3 mm | rain |
| 25/01/2026 | 1 mm | rain |
| 24/01/2026 | 18.4 mm | rain |
| 23/01/2026 | 14.5 mm | rain |
River flow that day: 70.629 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.4 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
- Unknown (no works overflow data)
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 SBB00887). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 31653dd5-c1ed-4091-a860-5e8d25936861. 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.