Stonepark Crescent, Ashburton

Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart

Stonepark Crescent, Ashburton

Combined sewer overflow · SBB01186 · feeds BUCKFASTLEIGH STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Started
5 Jan 2025, 12:23
Ended
5 Jan 2025, 13:36
Duration
1 hour 13 minutes
Receiving water
Ashburn
Parish
Ashburton

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Austins Bridge) 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
05/01/2025 (spill day)28.1 mmrain
04/01/202561.3 mmrain
03/01/20250.1 mmdry
02/01/20250 mmdry
01/01/20257.9 mmrain

River flow that day: 143.716 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 3.6 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
Not Applicable
Ahead of the works
Yes — the treatment works' own overflow stayed shut that day, so capacity was available. Avoidable.
EA annual return (2025)
39 counted spills · 175 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 SBB01186). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge fd8ea26c-8052-48c5-a1bb-bbd5ebbbb3d3_364176. 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.
Spill evidence — Stonepark Crescent, Ashburton — River Hub