Mill Creek pumping station, Dittisham

Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart

Mill Creek pumping station, Dittisham

Pumping station overflow · SBB00776 · feeds DITTISHAM MAIN_STW_DITTISHAM
No rain data

The discharge

Spill day
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Started
5 Mar 2020, 23:17
Ended
6 Mar 2020, 17:13
Duration
17 hours 56 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: No rain data3-day window: No rain data4-day window: No rain data
DateRainfall
05/03/2020 (spill day)no data
04/03/2020no data
03/03/2020no data
02/03/2020no data
01/03/2020no data

River flow that day: . Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 5.8 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.
EA annual return (2020)
28 counted spills · 217 h total
Monitor uptime (2020)
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 SBB00776). 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.