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Forde Park, Newton Abbot

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Forde Park, Newton Abbot

Combined sewer overflow · SBB01258 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Saturday, 24 January 2026
Started
24 Jan 2026, 11:45
Ended
24 Jan 2026, 12:24
Duration
39 minutes 40 seconds
Receiving water
Aller Brook (Teign) - Lower
Parish
Newton Abbot

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
24/01/2026 (spill day)19.8 mmrain
23/01/20266.5 mmrain
22/01/202618.2 mmrain
21/01/202616 mmrain
20/01/202625.6 mmrain

River flow that day: 46.308 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.6 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
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 SBB01258). 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.
Spill evidence — Forde Park, Newton Abbot — River Teign Data