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Chudleigh Knighton STW

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Chudleigh Knighton STW

Storm overflow at the works · SBB00252 · feeds CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON_STW_CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTO
Dry spill

Evidence strength

Low confidence
  • Dry on the EA 1-day window
  • Monitor 100% operational that year
  • Short discharge (<1 h) — weaker signal

The discharge

Spill day
Sunday, 17 December 2023
Started
17 Dec 2023, 09:33
Ended
17 Dec 2023, 09:59
Duration
25 minutes 30 seconds
Receiving water
Teign (Lower)
Parish
Hennock

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: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
17/12/2023 (spill day)0 mmdry
16/12/20230 mmdry
15/12/20230 mmdry
14/12/20230.3 mmrain
13/12/20230.2 mmdry

River flow that day: 7.83 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.2 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
EA annual return (2023)
81 counted spills · 336 h total
Monitor uptime (2023)
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 SBB00252). 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 — Chudleigh Knighton STW — River Teign Data