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HOLNE STW_SO_HOLNE
Storm overflow at the works · SBB00581 · feeds HOLNE_STW_HOLNE
Dry spill
Evidence strength
Medium confidence- ✓ Sustained discharge (≥1 h)
- ✓ Dry on the EA 1-day window
- ✓ Rain gauge close (≤5 km)
- ✓ Monitor 95% operational that year
The discharge
- Spill day
- Tuesday, 4 April 2023
- Started
- 4 Apr 2023, 06:29
- Ended
- 4 Apr 2023, 08:17
- Duration
- 1 hour 47 minutes
- Receiving water
- Dart
- Parish
- West Buckfastleigh
Rainfall evidence
Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Holne Priddons Farm) 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: Dry spill3-day window: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
| Date | Rainfall | |
|---|---|---|
| 04/04/2023 (spill day) | 0.1 mm | dry |
| 03/04/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 02/04/2023 | 0 mm | dry |
| 01/04/2023 | 0.3 mm | rain |
| 31/03/2023 | 18.5 mm | rain |
River flow that day: 21.114 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.
Gauge proximity
Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 2.1 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
- EA annual return (2023)
- 131 counted spills · 1675 h total
- Monitor uptime (2023)
- 95% 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 SBB00581). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge b000c3f6-3922-48ea-8726-4173de4998d0. 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.