Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart

Scout Hut, Stoke Gabriel

Combined sewer overflow · SBB01060 · feeds TORQUAY/ PAIGNTON/ BRIXHAM ) STW

Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day: Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Started: 2 Dec 2020, 16:16
Ended: 2 Dec 2020, 17:34
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes
Receiving water: —
Parish: —

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Brixham) 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

Date	Rainfall
02/12/2020 (spill day)	6.6 mm	rain
01/12/2020	0 mm	dry
30/11/2020	0 mm	dry
29/11/2020	0 mm	dry
28/11/2020	0 mm	dry

River flow that day: —. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 7.0 km apart. Closer means the rainfall reading is more representative of the overflow.

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Severity & context

Bathing water: Stoke Gabriel, Dart Estuary
Shellfish water: Dart
Ahead of the works: Unknown (no works overflow data)

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 SBB01060). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 9dba2bf3-f5ea-4616-ac8e-dce16dbc0dc8. 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 Hub.