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Queensway pumping station, Newton Abbot

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Queensway pumping station, Newton Abbot

Pumping station overflow · SBB01001 · feeds NEWTON ABBOT / TEIGNMOUTH STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Started
29 Oct 2023, 12:50
Ended
29 Oct 2023, 14:16
Duration
1 hour 25 minutes
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
DateRainfall
29/10/2023 (spill day)5.5 mmrain
28/10/202323.1 mmrain
27/10/20239.9 mmrain
26/10/202313.5 mmrain
25/10/20231.5 mmrain

River flow that day: 9.416 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.6 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)
34 counted spills · 254 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 SBB01001). 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.