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Bunkers Bridge, Chudleigh Knighton

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Bunkers Bridge, Chudleigh Knighton

Combined sewer overflow · SBB00190 · feeds CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON_STW_CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTO
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
Started
16 Dec 2025, 00:48
Ended
16 Dec 2025, 01:10
Duration
22 minutes
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: Wet weather3-day window: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
16/12/2025 (spill day)1.1 mmrain
15/12/202543.5 mmrain
14/12/20258.5 mmrain
13/12/20250 mmdry
12/12/20250 mmdry

River flow that day: 23.822 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.1 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
Yes — the treatment works' own overflow stayed shut that day, so capacity was available. Avoidable.
EA annual return (2025)
27 counted spills · 42 h total
Monitor uptime (2025)
98% 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 SBB00190). 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 — Bunkers Bridge, Chudleigh Knighton — River Teign Data