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Lemon Rd, Newton Abbot

SBB00837
Overflow on the network feeding Newton Abbot / Teignmouth STW · Combined sewer overflow
Shellfish water · Teign Estuary
Showing history for 2020 · records go back to 2020
Not spilling

The monitor is reporting and shows no discharge.

Last spill ended
12 May, 11:14
Counted spills, 2020
160
270 discharge events
Hours spilled, 2020
491
Is the feed working?
Working
Last checked 21 min ago · we poll SWW hourly
48h agonow
48/48 hourly readings received
Dry spills, 2020
0
None in 2020 · 98 since 2020
How a dry spill is decided →
Spilled before its STW, 2020
270
270 in 2020 · 967 since 2020
What this means →
Why this one spills

This looks like a fault, not a storm.

This overflow has discharged in dry weather 98 times since 2020 — spills with no rainfall to excuse them. Its treatment works is not itself over capacity, so a catchment-wide explanation does not hold. Applied to this record, the two-stage lawfulness test is hard to pass: a recurring dry-weather discharge is not an exceptional circumstance, and where the remedy is routine maintenance the disproportionate-cost exception is hard to run.

How this verdict is reached →

Its permit

What the environmental permit sets for this overflow — and where the public record is silent, which is itself the finding.

Pass-forward flow
Not published
Spill frequency limit
None set
Monitoring tier
Not published
Assessment trigger
Not crossed (threshold 10/year)

Is anyone acting on this?

Flagged problems
High spill frequency967 discharge events since 2020Dry spilling98 dry spills since 2020Spills before its works967 times since 2020
Measures on record

Nothing on record.

Verdict
No action recorded

A flagged problem with no active measure against it. That is a gap in the public record.

What you can do about this one

OPEN NOW

Ask for the data

Under the Environmental Information Regulations, Lemon Rd, Newton Abbot's telemetry, the works' flow-to-full-treatment setting, and any spill investigations are emissions information — they cannot be withheld on commercial-confidentiality grounds. A written request is the fastest lever.

BY 30 APR 2027

Get it into the next programme

Investigations that will shape the 2030–35 environment programme must complete by this date. Putting this overflow on the record now — to South West Water and the Environment Agency — is what gets it considered.

BY 1 NOV 2027

Put it in the drainage plan

South West Water's draft Drainage & Wastewater Management Plan goes to a twelve-week consultation. A named overflow with evidence behind it is far harder to leave out.

The record since 2020

98 dry spills and 967 pre-STW spills since 2020. Pick a year to see its events below.

Count by

2020: 160 spills · 270 discharge events

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Counted spills — the EA's 12/24-hour block method, the basis of the 10-a-year cap. Published annual return where available, computed the same way for the current year. Two ways to count →

Dry spills, every year

98 dry spills since 2020 · showing up to 12

12 May, 10:57
17m
0.2
Not spilling
→
24 Sept, 17:19
1h 17m
0.0
Not spilling
→
15 Sept, 21:17
54m
0.0
Not spilling
→
15 Sept, 08:46
1h 33m
0.0
Not spilling
→
11 Sept, 18:25
3h 15m
0.1
Not spilling
→
11 Sept, 06:24
2h 35m
0.1
Not spilling
→
2 Sept, 22:03
32m
0.0
Not spilling
→
2 Sept, 09:39
45m
0.0
Not spilling
→
1 Sept, 21:02
1h 36m
0.0
Not spilling
→
1 Sept, 09:03
1h 6m
0.0
Not spilling
→
31 Aug, 20:24
1h 58m
0.0
Not spilling
→
31 Aug, 08:26
1h 17m
0.0
Not spilling
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Spilled before its works

902 events since 2020 · started while Newton Abbot / Teignmouth STW stayed shut

12 May, 10:57
17m
0.2
Stayed shut
→
8 Jan, 21:43
3h 32m
33.6
Stayed shut
→
8 Jan, 14:46
5h 55m
33.6
Stayed shut
→
24 Nov, 10:07
45m
43.2
Stayed shut
→
21 Jan, 21:02
1h 12m
22.0
Stayed shut
→
4 Dec, 08:45
17m
40.0
Stayed shut
→
16 Nov, 05:42
1h 47m
23.9
Stayed shut
→
2 Nov, 04:05
50m
41.2
Stayed shut
→
2 Nov, 02:43
21m
41.2
Stayed shut
→
2 Nov, 02:00
21m
41.2
Stayed shut
→
21 Sept, 07:53
15m
16.2
Stayed shut
→
17 Sept, 11:07
1h 16m
47.9
Stayed shut
→

Spills by month, 2020

Dry Wet weather
13Jan
33Feb
30Mar
29Apr
18May
29Jun
28Jul
33Aug
Sep
Oct
11Nov
46Dec

Every spill in 2020, most recent first

Each event checked against the nearest rain gauge and against the treatment works’ own overflow. Open any row for its evidence dossier.

31 Dec, 18:53
1h 47m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
31 Dec, 06:10
2h 38m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Dec, 18:03
1h 59m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Dec, 05:43
2h 12m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Dec, 04:34
45m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Dec, 08:33
29m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Dec, 00:40
4h 54m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 14:54
3h 6m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 12:23
1h 26m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 09:36
32m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 06:58
1h 29m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
20 Dec, 00:02
52m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Dec, 08:47
1h 17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Dec, 23:11
3h 28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Dec, 20:07
59m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Dec, 07:27
1h 34m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
17 Dec, 22:17
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
17 Dec, 20:05
1h 35m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
17 Dec, 07:15
2h 32m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
16 Dec, 19:02
2h 7m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
16 Dec, 05:56
3h 33m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
15 Dec, 18:09
2h 47m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
15 Dec, 05:29
3h 12m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Dec, 21:45
22m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Dec, 17:17
2h 27m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Dec, 04:37
3h 2m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
13 Dec, 23:31
55m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
13 Dec, 16:09
3h 0m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
13 Dec, 04:00
3h 5m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
12 Dec, 15:54
1h 27m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
12 Dec, 03:27
1h 16m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
11 Dec, 14:41
1h 33m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
11 Dec, 03:25
21m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
11 Dec, 03:00
23m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
9 Dec, 22:13
52m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
9 Dec, 21:38
32m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
7 Dec, 10:30
23m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
5 Dec, 08:02
2h 23m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
4 Dec, 20:27
51m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
4 Dec, 07:27
2h 28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
3 Dec, 19:26
1h 46m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
3 Dec, 06:45
3h 1m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
2 Dec, 19:24
52m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
2 Dec, 06:37
1h 44m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
1 Dec, 18:50
1h 1m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
1 Dec, 05:56
2h 29m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Nov, 18:19
38m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Nov, 05:45
1h 14m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Nov, 17:45
41m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Nov, 05:33
50m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Nov, 16:57
1h 9m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Nov, 04:31
1h 15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Nov, 01:05
52m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Nov, 16:08
1h 11m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Nov, 08:48
51m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Nov, 20:21
1h 5m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Nov, 09:45
39m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Aug, 23:33
1h 11m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Aug, 12:44
2h 10m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
25 Aug, 10:17
1h 17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
25 Aug, 02:57
45m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
24 Aug, 21:50
2h 5m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
24 Aug, 09:44
1h 28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Aug, 20:56
2h 29m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Aug, 08:52
2h 4m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
22 Aug, 20:06
2h 55m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
22 Aug, 08:04
2h 33m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
21 Aug, 19:18
3h 23m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
21 Aug, 06:58
3h 25m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
20 Aug, 18:27
3h 37m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
20 Aug, 06:28
2h 55m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 17:39
3h 46m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 05:44
3h 47m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 03:28
33m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Aug, 17:23
2h 13m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Aug, 05:24
1h 11m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
17 Aug, 16:58
59m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Aug, 04:23
32m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
8 Aug, 21:17
39m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
7 Aug, 20:21
1h 43m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→

Showing the last 80 events of 270 in 2020.

65 brief spills under 15 minutes in 2020

Excluded from the counts, classification and flags above — too short to weigh against rainfall, and often an operational blip rather than a genuine discharge. Listed here for completeness. How we know.

29 Dec, 18:32 · 1m29 Dec, 05:49 · 14m29 Dec, 05:33 · 13m29 Dec, 05:30 · 1m23 Dec, 18:09 · 12m17 Dec, 22:06 · 4m14 Dec, 07:41 · 1m12 Dec, 17:27 · 3m12 Dec, 04:46 · 4m11 Dec, 02:50 · 9m11 Dec, 02:44 · 5m6 Dec, 09:48 · 6m6 Dec, 09:38 · 9m6 Dec, 09:29 · 1m3 Dec, 21:14 · 5m3 Dec, 19:17 · 4m2 Dec, 08:23 · 8m29 Nov, 05:30 · 1m25 Aug, 04:56 · 13m21 Jul, 06:50 · 2m19 Jul, 18:04 · 1m19 Jul, 17:48 · 11m13 Jul, 16:48 · 2m8 Jul, 08:41 · 14m8 Jul, 08:33 · 8m27 Jun, 06:26 · 6m21 Jun, 06:18 · 7m18 Jun, 16:57 · 2m12 Jun, 16:46 · 13m24 May, 07:33 · 1m23 May, 19:14 · 6m23 May, 19:12 · 1m22 May, 18:47 · 3m5 May, 07:54 · 9m29 Apr, 22:11 · 8m29 Apr, 08:29 · 11m22 Apr, 18:30 · 8m25 Mar, 08:36 · 2m23 Mar, 07:09 · 1m23 Mar, 06:59 · 8m+25 more