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PEAR TREE CROSS_CSO_ASHBURTON
Combined sewer overflow · SBB00917 · feeds BUCKFASTLEIGH STW
Wet weather
The discharge
- Spill day
- Wednesday, 10 December 2025
- Started
- 10 Dec 2025, 18:56
- Ended
- 10 Dec 2025, 19:18
- Duration
- 22 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
| Date | Rainfall | |
|---|---|---|
| 10/12/2025 (spill day) | 0 mm | dry |
| 09/12/2025 | 8.2 mm | rain |
| 08/12/2025 | 52.3 mm | rain |
| 07/12/2025 | 12.3 mm | rain |
| 06/12/2025 | 14.6 mm | rain |
River flow that day: 49.724 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 3.5 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)
- 57 counted spills · 281 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 SBB00917). 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.