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Lemon Rd, Newton Abbot

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Lemon Rd, Newton Abbot

Combined sewer overflow · SBB00837 · 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
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Started
15 Sept 2022, 08:46
Ended
15 Sept 2022, 10:19
Duration
1 hour 33 minutes
Receiving water
Lemon
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
15/09/2022 (spill day)0 mmdry
14/09/20220 mmdry
13/09/20226.7 mmrain
12/09/20221.7 mmrain
11/09/20220 mmdry

River flow that day: 1.031 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.5 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 (2022)
181 counted spills · 507 h total
Monitor uptime (2022)
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 SBB00837). 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.