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Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

155 Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth

Combined sewer overflow · SBB00115 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Dry spill

Evidence strength

Low confidence
  • Dry across a 3-day window
  • Short discharge (<1 h) — weaker signal
  • Monitor only 87% operational that year — data may be incomplete

The discharge

Spill day
Friday, 17 May 2024
Started
17 May 2024, 10:25
Ended
17 May 2024, 11:15
Duration
49 minutes 59 seconds
Receiving water
Ugbrooke Stream
Parish
Teignmouth

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Ashcombe) 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: Dry spill4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
17/05/2024 (spill day)0 mmdry
16/05/20240 mmdry
15/05/20240 mmdry
14/05/20240.1 mmdry
13/05/202422.2 mmrain

River flow that day: 3.046 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.3 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)
EA annual return (2024)
32 counted spills · 156 h total
Monitor uptime (2024)
87% 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 SBB00115). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 4e00b4e3-af60-47cf-afe7-b36ac774ca82. 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.