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Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart
Swallowfields, Totnes
Combined sewer overflow · SBB01196 · feeds TOTNES STW
Wet weather
The discharge
- Spill day
- Sunday, 5 January 2025
- Started
- 5 Jan 2025, 03:28
- Ended
- 5 Jan 2025, 03:44
- Duration
- 16 minutes
- Receiving water
- Dart
- Parish
- Totnes
Rainfall evidence
Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Harbertonford Slipperstone) 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 05/01/2025 (spill day) | 13.9 mm | rain |
| 04/01/2025 | 53.4 mm | rain |
| 03/01/2025 | 0.1 mm | dry |
| 02/01/2025 | 0 mm | dry |
| 01/01/2025 | 8.5 mm | rain |
River flow that day: 143.716 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 6.3 km apart. Closer means the rainfall reading is more representative of the overflow.
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Severity & context
- Bathing water
- Steamer Quay, Dart Estuary
- Shellfish water
- Dart
- Ahead of the works
- No — the works was also overflowing that day.
- EA annual return (2025)
- 28 counted spills · 60 h total
- Monitor uptime (2025)
- 99% 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 SBB01196). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge 8d954129-924c-47e3-8750-5f29a59617b2. 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.