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Chudleigh STW, Newton Abbot

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Chudleigh STW, Newton Abbot

Storm overflow at the works · SBB00254 · feeds CHUDLEIGH STW
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
Wednesday, 24 December 2025
Started
24 Dec 2025, 05:26
Ended
24 Dec 2025, 05:58
Duration
32 minutes 20 seconds
Receiving water
Teign (Lower)
Parish
Chudleigh

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: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
24/12/2025 (spill day)0 mmdry
23/12/20250 mmdry
22/12/20253.3 mmrain
21/12/20258.5 mmrain
20/12/20252.9 mmrain

River flow that day: 12.221 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
EA annual return (2025)
90 counted spills · 379 h total
Monitor uptime (2025)
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 SBB00254). 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.