River Wye Pollution

[Johnnyboxer]

BBC News story this morning, on BBC Breakfast

Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68221223

 

[vantage]

Didn’t mention sewerage did it. Probably not.

 

[Exfarmer]

Ambulance chasing lawyers and cgreedy people who will chase any thing , how many signed up to sue the car manufacturers , when they had lost nothing

 

[delilah]

tbf it's probably not the greatest idea to consolidate a nations chicken meat production into a small area. But to address that would mean a conversation about what drives such consolidation, and that conversation would show it isn't the farmers fault and it isn't at the farm level that change is needed.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Ambulance chasing lawyers and cgreedy people who will chase any thing , how many signed up to sue the car manufacturers , when they had lost nothing

Just interviewed a bloke who spends his time on the river in a coracle but since hearing of the pollution,every time he comes home from the river, he's "Angry" so he's making a claim

 

[robs1]

Why don't they just shift the sh!t in artics to an area that needs the muck ? Surely it's not rocket science and this issue has been making news for a while so they've had time to sort it out. Or is it actually pollution from sewage works and farming is an easy scape goat?

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Why don't they just shift the sh!t in artics to an area that needs the muck ? Surely it's not rocket science and this issue has been making news for a while so they've had time to sort it out. Or is it actually pollution from sewage works and farming is an easy scape goat?

Wouldn't it be better to rear the chickens where the grain is grown and where the muck would be less concentrated?

 

[robs1]

Wouldn't it be better to rear the chickens where the grain is grown and where the muck would be less concentrated?

I guess it's where the factories were originally

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Ambulance chasing lawyers and cgreedy people who will chase any thing , how many signed up to sue the car manufacturers , when they had lost nothing

I'll bet they're being represented by the detestable Leigh Day. That lot can smell a bunch of protesters who'll chuck money at them from miles away.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Another interviewee just said that when she's gone swimming in the river she's got the sh!ts and needed hospital treatment. Guessing that's more to do with sewerage,like when David Walliams swam in the Thames on his charity swim and about shat himself to death

 

[Wilksy]

It says 70% of pollution comes from agriculture, but not all from the chicken farms, it then says that some analysts think that the increase in chicken farms is the reason the wye is in decline,so they go from quoting percentages to speculating on the cause and as said above, no mention of sewage

 

[Pistonbroke]

Why don't they just shift the sh!t in artics to an area that needs the muck ? Surely it's not rocket science and this issue has been making news for a while so they've had time to sort it out. Or is it actually pollution from sewage works and farming is an easy scape goat?

The processor is making them do that now if they're in a certain distance from the river. My cousin has five sheds in Herefordshire and all the muck goes to Abingdon

 

[Bury the Trash]

tbf it's probably not the greatest idea to consolidate a nations chicken meat production into a small area.

agree
in this context but looking at that by focussing out , as my college teacher told us when i was 17 intensive poultry pigs fed on grain would be best kept in the Eastern arable areas no distance to transport feed and nutrients easily returned whence they came.
grass fed stock in the West higher rainfall /grass growth.
Broadly speaking.

 

[belac]

The processor is making them do that now if they're in a certain distance from the river. My cousin has five sheds in Herefordshire and all the muck goes to Abingdon

Abingdon?, thats next to Thames ?.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Abingdon?, thats next to Thames ?.

Burnt or bio digester. Either way it's not the Wye issue and there's others doing the same

 

[john 650]

Sheds were built where the processors wanted them, in proximity to their factories, but also where planners allowed them. Powys council for a while were more agreeable to chicken units, so there's more of them in the greater Wye catchment- it's also a bloody big catchment...

 

[Radnor Lad]

Mate of mine tests his water who has poultry sheds and it’s 100% clean. More sewage than anything is my bet

 

[Steevo]

I’d happily take any of it if the government or protestors fancy paying the haulage and spreading costs.

 

[Exfarmer]

Burnt or bio digester. Either way it's not the Wye issue and there's others doing the same

criminal to burn good worm food

 

[betweenthelines]

Report I saw said chicken poo turns the river green. Then we had loads of shots of the river being brown!

I would have thought that pollution due to run off from muck spreading would be very seasonal-i.e. no pollution Nov-Feb when it's generally too wet to get on the fields to spread muck.