Polution in the river wye....proof that farmers are not to blame!

[bill and bens dad]

An interesting link which I am sure will not be reported by the tv media as it isn't farmer unfriendly!! The amount of sewerage dumped shocked me!

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/...released-herefordshires-rivers/#mostFullBlock

 

[Barleycorn]

Same with our local river, one of the best trout streams in the country

Southern Water dumped raw sewage in River Test and tributaries for more than 4,000 hours last year

A WATER company spilled raw sewage into sensitive streams in the northern Test Valley on more than 250 occasions last year, data has revealed.

www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk

 

[Widgetone]

The cynic in me thinks to um log these discharges in terms of hours rather than litres is somewhat murky....

 

[Nearly]

The cynic in me thinks to um log these discharges in terms of hours rather than litres is somewhat murky....

Just like the rivers afterwards.

 

[Tarw Coch]

The cynic in me thinks to um log these discharges in terms of hours rather than litres is somewhat murky....

Very much so, could be a trickle, could be under pressure though a large pipe, we simply don’t know, it’s a meaningless statistic

 

[Widgetone]

So why don't the journos challenge these hopeless stats rather than just spouting a press release..its lazy reporting

Its the first thing I would ask - bit of a difference in volume between a garden hose running for a day compared to a pipe the width of, say, the Blackwall tunnel...

 

[No wot]

Journalism isn't what it was 25 yrs ago , with a team of roving journalists looking for a scoop , their numbers have been cut to the bone and mainly office bound , in this internet age anyone can ping off an article to the local paper and as long as it's not legally compromising , get it in the news and that's how biased articles get published, basically for the newspaper the money is in advertising revenue not quality journalism

 

[bill and bens dad]

Where are Channel 4 now? remember the dispatches program Highlighting the River WYE, the man from the EA telling us how bad it was/is ? Double standards EH ?

 

[texelburger]

An interesting link which I am sure will not be reported by the tv media as it isn't farmer unfriendly!! The amount of sewerage dumped shocked me!

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/...released-herefordshires-rivers/#mostFullBlock

A guy,I know,has been testing the River Wye water for the EA told me it's Sewage,and nothing else,causing pollution. All summer Phosphate and N levels in the Wye were pretty much non existent. Then after heavy rain he saw sewage being discharged into the Wye,tested again and levels were high,although still within tolerance,just.Then it gradually returns to very low levels after despite everyone applying autumn manure.
This chap,a fisherman,always thought farming was to blame,now he has completely changed his mind and blames the water companies.

 

[bill and bens dad]

A guy,I know,has been testing the River Wye water for the EA told me it's Sewage,and nothing else,causing pollution. All summer Phosphate and N levels in the Wye were pretty much non existent. Then after heavy rain he saw sewage being discharged into the Wye,tested again and levels were high,although still within tolerance,just.Then it gradually returns to very low levels after despite everyone applying autumn manure.
This chap,a fisherman,always thought farming was to blame,now he has completely changed his mind and blames the water companies.

Great, I think we need Channel 4 back to do another program exposing the facts? Any ideas how to contact them ?

 

[wanton dwarf]

Just like the rivers afterwards.

All that sewerage is the Fertiliser we bought to grow crops being dumped as rubbish.

Then you get fek wit EA staff moaning about us using fertiliser.

They are off their trollies.

 

[Ball acre]

 

[bill and bens dad]

Think he needs to look at the link to the Hereford Times First !! or speak to @texelburger

 

[teslacoils]

'Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn

Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farms and water companies.

www.bbc.co.uk

And yet the beeb has pitched it firmly against farming today.

 

[P.O.T]

Same with our local river, one of the best trout streams in the country

Southern Water dumped raw sewage in River Test and tributaries for more than 4,000 hours last year

A WATER company spilled raw sewage into sensitive streams in the northern Test Valley on more than 250 occasions last year, data has revealed.

www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk

Meanwhile, the water company said it acknowledges it "must reduce the frequency and impact of these spills".

4000 hours is a spill! Ffs

 

[PostHarvest]

So the water companies are discharging raw sewage from some of their sites for between 6 and 12 hours EVERY SINGLE DAY and they claim its because of storms? They obviously pay their PR people too much.

 

[teslacoils]

If they could just pin storms on global warming, and that on farmers or meat then they'd be on a winner.

Winner, winner, textured soy protein dinner.

 

[Widgetone]

'Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn

Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farms and water companies.

www.bbc.co.uk

And yet the beeb has pitched it firmly against farming today.

tbf, the Beeb report I heard this morning listed sewage, farming, and plastic in that order.

I wonder about the road gutters straight into the ditches - don't have a solution to that, but fuel spillages and tyre wear particles etc must be huge....

 

[Lazy Sod]

On my daily walk round the village, I cross the Wylye over 2 bridges and the water is beautifully clear. Further upstream it runs through chalk downland so it goes a bit whitish after really heavy rain. We have the advantage that the source is only about 7 or 8 miles upstream from my village. Another 3 miles and it gets the discharge from Warminster sewage works, I don't know how well they're behaving. What's it like along by you @Boysground, you're about 5 miles further along?

 

[pgk]

We graze water meadows which flood being downstream of Rissington, Stow and Moreton, had no artificial fert. Or Fym applied in living memory, greens up and grows a lot of grass every year must be getting the nutrients from somewhere