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Milford Park pumping station, Teignmouth

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Milford Park pumping station, Teignmouth

Pumping station overflow · SBB00774 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Started
13 May 2021, 05:40
Ended
13 May 2021, 07:42
Duration
2 hours 2 minutes
Receiving water
Ugbrooke Stream
Parish
Teignmouth

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Ashcombe) 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
13/05/2021 (spill day)10 mmrain
12/05/202160.1 mmrain
11/05/202111.8 mmrain
10/05/20210.5 mmrain
09/05/20210.4 mmrain

River flow that day: 29.838 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.3 km apart. Closer means the rainfall reading is more representative of the overflow.

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Severity & context

Bathing water
Shaldon
Shellfish water
Teign Estuary
Ahead of the works
Unknown (no works overflow data)
EA annual return (2021)
2 counted spills · 2 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 SBB00774). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 4e00b4e3-af60-47cf-afe7-b36ac774ca82. 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.