Textile Mill, Dartington

Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart

Textile Mill, Dartington

Combined sewer overflow · SBB01219 · feeds TOTNES STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Sunday, 14 February 2021
Started
14 Feb 2021, 22:18
Ended
14 Feb 2021, 23:10
Duration
52 minutes
Receiving water
Bidwell Brook
Parish
Dartington

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
14/02/2021 (spill day)24 mmrain
13/02/20214.8 mmrain
12/02/20210 mmdry
11/02/20210 mmdry
10/02/20210.3 mmrain

River flow that day: 33.104 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.5 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 (2021)
34 counted spills · 203 h total
Monitor uptime (2021)
35% 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 SBB01219). 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 — Textile Mill, Dartington — River Hub