Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

Water companies have been increasing their dumping of raw sewage into the sea by over 2,500% since 2016 putting Britons at risk of Britons at risk of e-coli, salmonella and shockingly, hepatitis A.

Is it really acceptable for a developed country to be doing this in the 21st century? Surely we should be encouraging people to enjoy our great sea and beaches without such a risk to their health? And what about the adverse economic impact on tourism?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ewage-sea.html

https://www.ft.com/content/0140a61d-...d-1a797f7475bb

https://news.sky.com/story/huge-incr...veals-12677730

Re: Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

Companies blaming unforeseen electrical/mechanical breakdowns for their problems, while simultaneously spending less than the bare minimum on maintaining those systems and replacing them when life-expired … :afire:

Re: Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

Welcome to late stage capitalism.

Re: Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

My posts are your clickbait ;)

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https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...3&d=1661171514

And in totally unrelated news…

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ronment-agency

Re: Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

As someone that started his professional working life in the water industry, I can understand in general terms the issue at hand.

Sewage Treatment Works/Waste Water Treatment Works are designed to handle a certain flow rate.

When we have storms/ flash floods a lot of the excess water finds itself in the waste water system and overwhelms the treatment plant.

What should happen is that the excess flow should exit the plant before it enters the plant over a storm weir into storm tanks. The excess material will then be pumped into the treatment plant for treatment from the storm tanks after the excess flow has receded to manageable levels.

But the storm tanks are a finite volume, and when they are full the excess flow will then by diverted into whatever watercourse the treatments plants outfall is.

There are screens so condoms, tampons, nappies, wet wipes (all the stuff you shouldn't flush down the toilet anyway) should be stopped.

Also when you say "raw sewage" it is heavily diluted by the excess flow, and a large % of the solid matter will settle in the storm tanks.

The only way to alleviate the problem is to build more storm storage tanks or build more treatment plants. Which is a legitimate question of investment.

And/or stop storm water entering the waste water network. Storm water should enter drains and watercourses, not sewers (unless specifically designed to)

Re: Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

Interesting, wonder if storms/ flash floods have increased 2500% in 6 years?

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Yes, Redwood chooses to hide behind the cloak of an under-funded government agency whilst instructing it to permit foreign-owned water companies to dump raw sewage into our beautiful British seaside.

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% are a terrible statistic though. It depends what the starting number is.

Also my example above, as I pointed out, was in general terms.

The Mail story in the OP refers to an electrical issue at a pumping station.

This also makes sense, as not everywhere is uphill of a treatment works and pumping stations are required to move the flow to the treatment plant.

Every pumping station I worked at also had the same set up as I advised previously regarding storm tanks. I can only assume that the pumping station(s) involved where inactive for a long period of time or had no storage capability.

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I'm guessing to some extent it's about long-term planning and funding the necessary investment. And having a strong well-resourced regulator backed up by government and not used as a scapegoat.

Re: Raw sewage dumped into the sea increases by 2,500% since 2016
 

it what the tories want they all voted to allow it except 22 that voted against they want no regulations

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No wonder norovirus is around if they're poking around on the beaches with all this sewage...

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Last week we had torrential rain in cleethorpes ,if that excess water is not dumped into the Humber the streets would be awash with human sewage as the Victorian sewers are overwhelmed and mister poo poo comes back to haunt us.

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Or, they could have adequate storm tanks and treatment plants to prevent that from happening…

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Yeah … that excuse really doesn’t hold water (geddit). Public sewage systems have been a thing in this country for 175 years. The engineering is well understood, including the design and maintenance of adequate storm water storage. If there isn’t adequate volume in the system to cope then that’s a failure to invest in a well understood and entirely predictable part of the system we’re paying for through our water/sewage bills.