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Main St/town Orchard, Abbotskerswell

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Main St/town Orchard, Abbotskerswell

Combined sewer overflow · SBB01233 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Thursday, 5 February 2026
Started
5 Feb 2026, 00:50
Ended
5 Feb 2026, 01:14
Duration
24 minutes
Receiving water
Aller Brook
Parish
Abbotskerswell

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
DateRainfall
05/02/2026 (spill day)16.5 mmrain
04/02/20269.4 mmrain
03/02/20265.2 mmrain
02/02/202614.8 mmrain
01/02/20261.2 mmrain

River flow that day: 40.511 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 4.2 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
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 SBB01233). 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.