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Love Ln, Marldon

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Love Ln, Marldon

Combined sewer overflow · SBB00707 · feeds COMPTON AND MARLDON STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Started
18 Feb 2026, 17:54
Ended
18 Feb 2026, 18:29
Duration
34 minutes 10 seconds
Receiving water
Aller Brook
Parish
Marldon

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: Wet weather3-day window: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
18/02/2026 (spill day)26.7 mmrain
17/02/202620.3 mmrain
16/02/20262.7 mmrain
15/02/202610.4 mmrain
14/02/20266.3 mmrain

River flow that day: 31.861 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 1.9 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.
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 SBB00707). 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.