Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Coach Rd, Newton Abbot

Combined sewer overflow · SBB00281 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW

Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Started: 16 Aug 2022, 15:20
Ended: 16 Aug 2022, 15:35
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds
Receiving water: Aller Brook (Teign) - Lower
Parish: Newton Abbot

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

Date	Rainfall
16/08/2022 (spill day)	0.2 mm	dry
15/08/2022	1.3 mm	rain
14/08/2022	1.7 mm	rain
13/08/2022	0 mm	dry
12/08/2022	0 mm	dry

River flow that day: 0.49 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.4 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: Unknown (no works overflow data)
EA annual return (2022): 3 counted spills · 1 h total
Monitor uptime (2022): 92% 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 SBB00281). 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.