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Forde Park/torquay Rd, Newton Abbot

SBB00467
Overflow on the network feeding Newton Abbot / Teignmouth STW · Combined sewer overflow
Shellfish water · Teign Estuary
Showing history for 2020 · records go back to 2020
Not spilling

The monitor is reporting and shows no discharge.

Last spill ended
15 Jun, 02:02
Counted spills, 2020
48
74 discharge events
Hours spilled, 2020
46
Is the feed working?
Working
Last checked 21 min ago · we poll SWW hourly
48h agonow
48/48 hourly readings received
Dry spills, 2020
0
None in 2020 · 89 since 2020
How a dry spill is decided →
Spilled before its STW, 2020
74
74 in 2020 · 914 since 2020
What this means →
Why this one spills

This looks like a fault, not a storm.

This overflow has discharged in dry weather 89 times since 2020 — spills with no rainfall to excuse them. Its treatment works is not itself over capacity, so a catchment-wide explanation does not hold. Applied to this record, the two-stage lawfulness test is hard to pass: a recurring dry-weather discharge is not an exceptional circumstance, and where the remedy is routine maintenance the disproportionate-cost exception is hard to run.

How this verdict is reached →

Its permit

What the environmental permit sets for this overflow — and where the public record is silent, which is itself the finding.

Pass-forward flow
Not published
Spill frequency limit
None set
Monitoring tier
Not published
Assessment trigger
Crossed — over 10 spills/year

Is anyone acting on this?

Flagged problems
High spill frequency914 discharge events since 2020Dry spilling89 dry spills since 2020Spills before its works914 times since 2020
Measures on record

Nothing on record.

Verdict
No action recorded

A flagged problem with no active measure against it. That is a gap in the public record.

What you can do about this one

OPEN NOW

Ask for the data

Under the Environmental Information Regulations, Forde Park/torquay Rd, Newton Abbot's telemetry, the works' flow-to-full-treatment setting, and any spill investigations are emissions information — they cannot be withheld on commercial-confidentiality grounds. A written request is the fastest lever.

BY 30 APR 2027

Get it into the next programme

Investigations that will shape the 2030–35 environment programme must complete by this date. Putting this overflow on the record now — to South West Water and the Environment Agency — is what gets it considered.

BY 1 NOV 2027

Put it in the drainage plan

South West Water's draft Drainage & Wastewater Management Plan goes to a twelve-week consultation. A named overflow with evidence behind it is far harder to leave out.

The record since 2020

89 dry spills and 914 pre-STW spills since 2020. Pick a year to see its events below.

Count by

2020: 48 spills · 74 discharge events

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Counted spills — the EA's 12/24-hour block method, the basis of the 10-a-year cap. Published annual return where available, computed the same way for the current year. Two ways to count →

Dry spills, every year

89 dry spills since 2020 · showing up to 12

17 Jan, 23:15
15m
0.0
Not spilling
→
17 Jan, 22:30
30m
0.0
Not spilling
→
17 Jan, 20:15
2h 0m
0.0
Not spilling
→
28 Apr, 15:15
15m
0.0
Not spilling
→
28 Apr, 09:56
18m
0.0
Not spilling
→
28 Apr, 03:00
6h 55m
0.0
Not spilling
→
28 Apr, 01:44
1h 15m
0.0
Not spilling
→
28 Apr, 00:23
30m
0.0
Not spilling
→
28 Apr, 00:06
15m
0.0
Not spilling
→
27 Apr, 23:45
19m
0.0
Not spilling
→
27 Apr, 22:26
25m
0.0
Not spilling
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27 Apr, 20:15
30m
0.0
Not spilling
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Spilled before its works

911 events since 2020 · started while Newton Abbot / Teignmouth STW stayed shut

15 Jun, 01:47
16m
0.4
Stayed shut
→
12 Mar, 20:32
30m
21.2
Stayed shut
→
9 Mar, 07:18
26m
4.9
Stayed shut
→
18 Feb, 16:22
20m
26.7
Stayed shut
→
18 Feb, 15:42
17m
26.7
Stayed shut
→
18 Feb, 12:01
28m
26.7
Stayed shut
→
7 Feb, 10:45
17m
13.8
Stayed shut
→
7 Feb, 02:32
17m
13.8
Stayed shut
→
6 Feb, 03:02
48m
16.5
Stayed shut
→
5 Feb, 13:48
16m
16.5
Stayed shut
→
27 Jan, 03:34
1h 23m
57.1
Stayed shut
→
26 Jan, 19:32
6h 42m
57.1
Stayed shut
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Spills by month, 2020

Dry Wet weather
6Jan
9Feb
4Mar
14Apr
May
4Jun
Jul
6Aug
6Sep
5Oct
6Nov
14Dec

Every spill in 2020, most recent first

Each event checked against the nearest rain gauge and against the treatment works’ own overflow. Open any row for its evidence dossier.

27 Dec, 04:19
40m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Dec, 02:42
1h 17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Dec, 01:03
25m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 16:36
32m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 15:57
20m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 15:12
31m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 12:26
24m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
23 Dec, 07:08
19m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Dec, 23:46
1h 56m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Dec, 08:06
17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
13 Dec, 23:27
37m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
9 Dec, 19:45
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
3 Dec, 09:28
27m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
3 Dec, 08:11
22m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Nov, 01:06
30m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Nov, 14:30
53m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Nov, 11:24
56m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
11 Nov, 19:09
16m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
11 Nov, 18:15
20m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
3 Nov, 03:25
19m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
31 Oct, 09:57
21m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
31 Oct, 09:10
31m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
31 Oct, 08:14
25m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Oct, 08:00
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
2 Oct, 12:48
54m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Sept, 14:15
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Sept, 11:17
25m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
25 Sept, 07:45
28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
25 Sept, 05:15
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
24 Sept, 22:15
30m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
24 Sept, 01:20
16m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Aug, 19:15
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Aug, 12:46
1h 28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 09:45
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 09:15
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 07:42
1h 18m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
19 Aug, 06:51
48m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Jun, 09:15
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
18 Jun, 16:05
17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
12 Jun, 13:11
28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
11 Jun, 00:29
17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Apr, 08:45
41m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
30 Apr, 05:30
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 15:15
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 09:28
19m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 07:21
23m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 06:22
16m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 05:08
54m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 04:48
17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Apr, 04:17
30m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Apr, 21:00
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Apr, 15:00
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Apr, 13:30
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
28 Apr, 08:27
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
17 Apr, 06:24
1h 1m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
15 Mar, 10:26
17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
8 Mar, 01:59
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
6 Mar, 04:29
18m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
5 Mar, 05:55
36m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
29 Feb, 02:24
1h 14m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
27 Feb, 01:41
35m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
16 Feb, 11:01
1h 18m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
16 Feb, 03:59
1h 5m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
16 Feb, 02:09
1h 44m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
15 Feb, 16:12
1h 50m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
15 Feb, 11:05
4h 58m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
13 Feb, 02:04
51m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
9 Feb, 15:44
47m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
16 Jan, 13:12
28m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Jan, 17:26
41m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
14 Jan, 16:44
15m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
13 Jan, 17:28
22m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
9 Jan, 12:27
38m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
9 Jan, 02:00
17m
—
No rain data
Not spilling — flagged before STW
→
222 brief spills under 15 minutes in 2020

Excluded from the counts, classification and flags above — too short to weigh against rainfall, and often an operational blip rather than a genuine discharge. Listed here for completeness. How we know.

27 Dec, 04:09 · 3m27 Dec, 04:06 · 1m27 Dec, 04:01 · 4m23 Dec, 17:08 · 1m23 Dec, 12:51 · 14m9 Dec, 23:32 · 1m9 Dec, 22:33 · 10m9 Dec, 22:21 · 1m9 Dec, 21:55 · 1m9 Dec, 21:37 · 11m9 Dec, 20:45 · 1m9 Dec, 20:42 · 1m9 Dec, 20:37 · 2m9 Dec, 20:15 · 12m3 Dec, 10:19 · 1m3 Dec, 10:16 · 2m3 Dec, 10:11 · 4m3 Dec, 10:07 · 3m3 Dec, 09:58 · 7m3 Dec, 09:26 · 1m3 Dec, 09:24 · 1m3 Dec, 09:12 · 11m3 Dec, 09:00 · 12m3 Dec, 08:48 · 3m3 Dec, 08:37 · 9m3 Dec, 08:35 · 1m3 Dec, 08:09 · 1m3 Dec, 08:00 · 8m3 Dec, 07:49 · 2m3 Dec, 07:46 · 2m3 Dec, 07:40 · 5m14 Nov, 14:24 · 2m14 Nov, 14:13 · 2m25 Sept, 08:24 · 1m25 Sept, 08:15 · 1m25 Sept, 05:00 · 7m28 Aug, 00:12 · 11m28 Aug, 00:07 · 2m27 Aug, 16:14 · 1m27 Aug, 16:12 · 1m+182 more