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Scotts Bridge pumping station, Torquay

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Scotts Bridge pumping station, Torquay

Pumping station overflow · SBB01059 · feeds TORQUAY/ PAIGNTON/ BRIXHAM ) STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Started
11 Nov 2025, 17:38
Ended
11 Nov 2025, 20:06
Duration
2 hours 28 minutes
Receiving water
Aller Brook (Teign) - Upper
Parish
Kingskerswell

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
11/11/2025 (spill day)38.4 mmrain
10/11/20252.7 mmrain
09/11/202514.8 mmrain
08/11/20250.2 mmdry
07/11/20258.8 mmrain

River flow that day: 18.611 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 1.7 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
Not Applicable
Ahead of the works
Unknown (no works overflow data)
EA annual return (2025)
4 counted spills · 4 h total
Monitor uptime (2025)
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 SBB01059). 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.
Spill evidence — Scotts Bridge pumping station, Torquay — River Teign Data