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Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign
Forde Road pumping station, Newton Abbot
Pumping station overflow · SBB00468 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Dry spill
Evidence strength
Medium confidence- ✓ Dry across a 4-day antecedent window
- ✓ Monitor 100% operational that year
- ⚠ Short discharge (<1 h) — weaker signal
The discharge
- Spill day
- Sunday, 29 January 2023
- Started
- 29 Jan 2023, 22:35
- Ended
- 29 Jan 2023, 22:53
- Duration
- 17 minutes 56 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: Dry spill3-day window: Dry spill4-day window: Dry spill
| Date | Rainfall | |
|---|---|---|
| 29/01/2023 (spill day) | 0 mm | dry |
| 28/01/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 27/01/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 26/01/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 25/01/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
River flow that day: 5.458 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.6 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 (2023)
- 46 counted spills · 336 h total
- Monitor uptime (2023)
- 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 SBB00468). 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.