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East Ogwell STW

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

East Ogwell STW

Storm overflow at the works · SBB00393 · feeds EAST OGWELL_STW_EAST OGWELL
Dry spill

Evidence strength

High confidence
  • Dry across a 4-day antecedent window
  • Rain gauge close (≤5 km)
  • Monitor 100% operational that year
  • Short discharge (<1 h) — weaker signal

The discharge

Spill day
Monday, 4 January 2021
Started
4 Jan 2021, 11:22
Ended
4 Jan 2021, 11:46
Duration
23 minutes 57 seconds
Receiving water
Lemon
Parish
Ogwell

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Bickington) 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: Dry spill4-day window: Dry spill
DateRainfall
04/01/2021 (spill day)0 mmdry
03/01/20210 mmdry
02/01/20210.1 mmdry
01/01/20210.1 mmdry
31/12/20200 mmdry

River flow that day: 7.284 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 4.9 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
EA annual return (2021)
84 counted spills · 1409 h total
Monitor uptime (2021)
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 SBB00393). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 31653dd5-c1ed-4091-a860-5e8d25936861. 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.