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Summerhill pumping station, Ilsington

Spill evidence · Friends of the River Teign

Summerhill pumping station, Ilsington

Pumping station overflow · SBB01191 · feeds HEATHFIELD STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Monday, 4 October 2021
Started
4 Oct 2021, 23:04
Ended
5 Oct 2021, 14:22
Duration
15 hours 18 minutes
Receiving water
Liverton Brook
Parish
Ilsington

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Bickington) 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
04/10/2021 (spill day)31 mmrain
03/10/20215.3 mmrain
02/10/202112.2 mmrain
01/10/20218.7 mmrain
30/09/202112.2 mmrain

River flow that day: 11.043 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 3.3 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
No — the works was also overflowing that day.
EA annual return (2021)
86 counted spills · 1307 h total
Monitor uptime (2021)
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 SBB01191). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 31653dd5-c1ed-4091-a860-5e8d25936861. 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.