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Keyberry Rd No 2, Newton Abbot

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Keyberry Rd No 2, Newton Abbot

Combined sewer overflow · SBB00628 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Dry spill

Evidence strength

Medium confidence
  • Sustained discharge (≥1 h)
  • Dry on the EA 1-day window
  • Monitor 100% operational that year

The discharge

Spill day
Sunday, 29 December 2024
Started
29 Dec 2024, 17:37
Ended
29 Dec 2024, 18:39
Duration
1 hour 2 minutes
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: Dry spill3-day window: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
29/12/2024 (spill day)0 mmdry
28/12/20240.1 mmdry
27/12/20240.9 mmrain
26/12/20241.4 mmrain
25/12/20241.9 mmrain

River flow that day: 4.899 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)
EA annual return (2024)
1 counted spills · 1 h total
Monitor uptime (2024)
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 SBB00628). 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.