Kilbury STW, Buckfastleigh
The monitor is reporting and shows no discharge.
Can its works cope?
Full capacity view →This overflow drains to Buckfastleigh STW, serving about 7,795 people.
The works has headroom — spills here point upstream, to a blockage, failed pump or infiltration.
The same works has emergency overflows too
All emergency overflows →4 pumping-station emergency overflows feed Buckfastleigh STW works — raw-sewage relief outlets that should fire only when a pump fails. They are not in this page's feed; between them they have discharged about 2,054 recorded hours.
Its permit
What the environmental permit sets for this overflow — and where the public record is silent, which is itself the finding.
- Pass-forward flow
- Not published
- Spill frequency limit
- None set
- Monitoring tier
- Not published
- Assessment trigger
- Crossed — over 10 spills/year
Is anyone acting on this?
Nothing flagged by the analysis.
- Install and run event-duration monitoringMonitoringcomplete 2021
- Install and run event-duration monitoringMonitoringcomplete 2022
The analysis flags no material problem here.
What you can do about this one
Ask for the data
Under the Environmental Information Regulations, Kilbury STW, Buckfastleigh's telemetry, the works' flow-to-full-treatment setting, and any spill investigations are emissions information — they cannot be withheld on commercial-confidentiality grounds. A written request is the fastest lever.
Get it into the next programme
Investigations that will shape the 2030–35 environment programme must complete by this date. Putting this overflow on the record now — to South West Water and the Environment Agency — is what gets it considered.
Put it in the drainage plan
South West Water's draft Drainage & Wastewater Management Plan goes to a twelve-week consultation. A named overflow with evidence behind it is far harder to leave out.
The record since 2020
84 dry spills and 0 pre-STW spills since 2020. Pick a year to see its events below.
Dry spills, every year
84 dry spills since 2020 · showing up to 12
Spilled before its works
0 events since 2020 · started while Buckfastleigh STW stayed shut
This overflow has never been recorded spilling ahead of its treatment works.
Spills by month, 2025
Dry Wet weatherEvery spill in 2025, most recent first
Each event checked against the nearest rain gauge and against the treatment works' own overflow. Open any row for its evidence dossier.
Showing the last 80 events of 141 in 2025.