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Whiddon Down STW

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Whiddon Down STW

Storm overflow at the works · SBB01355 · feeds WHIDDON DOWN_STW_WHIDDON DOWN
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Started
23 Jan 2024, 06:17
Ended
23 Jan 2024, 10:51
Duration
4 hours 34 minutes
Receiving water
Fingle Brook
Parish
Drewsteignton

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Sticklepath) 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
23/01/2024 (spill day)3.3 mmrain
22/01/20244.7 mmrain
21/01/202427.8 mmrain
20/01/202411.4 mmrain
19/01/20240.5 mmrain

River flow that day: 10.149 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.1 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
Not Applicable
EA annual return (2024)
23 counted spills · 244 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 SBB01355). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 8a94b829-d54c-402a-8586-b35cece06a2f_390511. 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.