Warfleet Creek pumping station, Dartmouth

Pumping station overflow · SBB01316 · feeds DARTMOUTH STW

Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day: Thursday, 21 January 2021
Started: 21 Jan 2021, 18:45
Ended: 22 Jan 2021, 12:58
Duration: 18 hours 13 minutes
Receiving water: Dart (Tidal)
Parish: Dartmouth

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
21/01/2021 (spill day)	0 mm	dry
20/01/2021	20.5 mm	rain
19/01/2021	16.7 mm	rain
18/01/2021	14.8 mm	rain
17/01/2021	0 mm	dry

River flow that day: 40.044 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: Warfleet Creek, Dart Estuary
Shellfish water: Dart
Ahead of the works: Unknown (no works overflow data)
EA annual return (2021): 358 counted spills · 344 h total
Monitor uptime (2021): 100% operational

⚠ Coastal / tidal location — very short discharges around high tide can be monitor artefacts; corroborate with tide times before relying on short events here.

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 SBB01316). 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.