FERRY BOAT SPST_PSCSOEO_DITTISHAM

Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart

FERRY BOAT SPST_PSCSOEO_DITTISHAM

Pumping station overflow · SBB00446 · feeds DITTISHAM MAIN_STW_DITTISHAM
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Thursday, 26 February 2026
Started
26 Feb 2026, 23:21
Ended
27 Feb 2026, 00:45
Duration
1 hour 23 minutes
Receiving water
Dart (Tidal)
Parish
Dittisham

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
DateRainfall
26/02/2026 (spill day)22.1 mmrain
25/02/20260 mmdry
24/02/20260 mmdry
23/02/20260 mmdry
22/02/20263 mmrain

River flow that day: 46.058 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.0 km apart. Closer means the rainfall reading is more representative of the overflow.

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Severity & context

Bathing water
Dittisham, Dart Estuary
Shellfish water
Dart
Ahead of the works
No — the works was also overflowing that day.

⚠ 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 SBB00446). 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.