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Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart
Old Woollen Mill, Buckfastleigh
Combined sewer overflow · SBB00885 · feeds BUCKFASTLEIGH STW
Wet weather
The discharge
- Spill day
- Wednesday, 20 January 2021
- Started
- 20 Jan 2021, 19:22
- Ended
- 20 Jan 2021, 20:54
- Duration
- 1 hour 32 minutes
- Receiving water
- Dart
- Parish
- Buckfastleigh
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 20/01/2021 (spill day) | 30.5 mm | rain |
| 19/01/2021 | 40.1 mm | rain |
| 18/01/2021 | 18.9 mm | rain |
| 17/01/2021 | 0 mm | dry |
| 16/01/2021 | 0 mm | dry |
River flow that day: 124.9 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 1.6 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 (2021)
- 10 counted spills · 7 h total
- Monitor uptime (2021)
- 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 SBB00885). 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.