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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
Saturday, 29 November 2025
Started
29 Nov 2025, 06:33
Ended
29 Nov 2025, 09:29
Duration
2 hours 56 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
29/11/2025 (spill day)0.7 mmrain
28/11/202510.5 mmrain
27/11/20251.2 mmrain
26/11/20250.6 mmrain
25/11/20250 mmdry

River flow that day: 13.159 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
Yes — the treatment works' own overflow stayed shut that day, so capacity was available. Avoidable.
EA annual return (2025)
87 counted spills · 1364 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 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.