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In exquisite timing, local river guardians discovered two significant sewage discharges on the Roding today. The quantity & volume was so big that they were visibly polluting the river (& likely poisoning aquatic life) for hundreds of metres downstream. Even worse, this stretch of the River at Wanstead Park... show more
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To add insult to injury, the person who discovered this environmental crime wasn’t the multi billion pound @EnvAgency, but a local pensioner who was one of the people the EA was threatening to jail for restoring a river without a permit.
That will be due to the excessive rainfall that has overwhelmed the system.
Can anyone explain to me how we are in the middle of drought and water shortages AND YET the Wierwood reservoir in Forest Row is full to the brim and has been for years because the pumps are broken and no one can be bothered to fix them. What a disgrace. Needs exposing !
This is truly absurd and the stuff of nightmares. We have lost over 40% of our river species, for ten years I've helped rescue swans and waterfowl from my local river covered in sewage and pollution or ill from it effect. Endless animals are suffering. All to maximise profit.
Nationalise water now.
People are falling ill all over the UK, from contaminated sea water/ beaches, from wild swimming , as you mention paddling, people take infants to spots like this, water companies could literally kill the very young, who would be up to their knees in what is meant for a toilet
Wtf is wrong with our country! When is enough a enough. Polluting our own rivers has to be the dumbest natural vandalism ever. All for a bit of extra profit. And still the government do fuck all about it. Unreal.
The water companies know they can get away with it. Nobody with any power prepared to stop them.
You probably know, but if I can point out this wouldnt be *quite so terrible if it were organic waste without the chemicals added. A dead sheep in our stream polluted it badly for months.. but that was organic and nature can cope a bit. Pharma/plastics make it just so much worse.
I recently noted a really strong smell of sulphur where Markfield Park meets the Lea, this weekend Pretty sure someone is dumping waste into the river, there
Must be due to all the rainfall recently🙄
Block the discharge pipes !
It’ll be all the extra rain we’ve been having 😛
What, hypothetically, would be the consequences if one of those effluent pipes got thoroughly clogged?
"Fiscal constraints" prevent fixing illegal outfalls. But not million-pound bonuses for executives. Thames Water: £19 billion in debt. Sewage in rivers. Children paddling in discharge. And the board gets bonuses. That's not fiscal constraint. That's fiscal choice. They chose the bonus over the outfall. Every time. BUILD UK water policy: no executive bonuses until discharge compliance reaches zero. Not reduced. Zero. You don't get a reward for running a company that poisons children's swimming spots. And mandatory real-time discharge monitoring on every outfall public data, publicly accessible. If sewage is entering a river, the people swimming in it should know before they get in, not after they get sick. Thames Water can't afford to fix the pipes but can afford to pay the people who broke them. That's not insolvency. That's priorities.
That will be due to the well known Rodding Monsoon they have experienced
Fecal constraints?.
Absolutely vile, they should be in prison!
Totally amoral !
This is horrendous. The days of children being able to happily paddle or swim are long gone. Insane how this is allowed to continue
ENOUGH
Privatisation feeds parasites. Killing the UK
FFS
Heartbreaking. Kids paddling in sewage while water companies pay out bonuses. We need proper infrastructure investment. 💚
@KateM45 But that can’t be true. They only release sewage when there is heavy rain with too much water to handle.
Christ. Kids paddle there.
It's all downstream of broken money. Incentives equal outcomes.
Bastards!
That discolouration in the footage is exactly what an overwhelmed combined sewer looks like. Surface water shouldn't still be sharing that pipe with foul flow. SuDS separation on new development is the regulatory fix now, not an option.
Yes, all that rain from *checks notes*… the driest period on record has surely overwhelmed the system.
@undaconsulting Intelligent flood risk management! I bet you'll be swamped with work when the rain comes! Let's hope it rains slowly so the baked ground has a chance to do its job unlike the @EnvAgency
@paulpowlesland @EnvAgency Actually the reverse: baked, cracked soil sheds water faster than it soaks it in. Hydrophobic ground after drought is a classic flash-flood trigger, not protection from it.
Is the discharge from a CSO or a surface water outfall into which there’s been a misconnection? If it’s the latter the water company is not responsible, the property owner is and could face a fine of up to £50,000 and/or Imprisonment for up to 12 months
@andyburnham @angelaeagle
Until we start jailing the top brass, nothing will change
The upper echelons of 🇬🇧 society are riddled with corruption!
Oh no! Not what families need in this heat! Poor little paddlers!
Despicable. Not that there is any justification for it in any aspect but why is there a discharge now? There’s no storm water so can’t be an overflow issue
