there is no treatment for it the drains from most roads go straight into the water courses.
Sewage discharge into rivers.
- Thread starter suffolksmallholder
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- Cumbria
Mm, is that right.Most water companies have paid very little dividend for several years to those who own it . They are in the main yours and mine pension funds
1) "Shareholders in the UK’s nine privatised water companies have made more than £6.5bn from dividends and interest in the past five years, according to new research. Bosses of the nine companies were paid £58m in salary, bonuses, pensions and other benefits over the same five-year period, the GMB union found."
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2) Britain’s privatised water and sewage companies paid £1.4bn in dividends in 2022, up from £540mn the previous year, despite rising household bills and a wave of public criticism over sewage outflows. The figures, based on a Financial Times analysis of the 10 largest water and sewage companies’ accounts, are higher than headline dividends in the year to end March 2022. This is because several have layered corporate structures with numerous subsidiaries, only one of which — the operating company — is regulated by Ofwat."
- Location
- Northumberland
Probably should get some treatment though, when you consider the hoo-ha about how dirty the rivers are. Some videos going about of very nasty scummy water draining off roads into watercourses; all that brake dust and rubber/plastic contamination can’t be good.
I mean, when you consider that some folks would like to see farmers put in jail for allowing a cow to poop into the river
but if the highways cant keep up the proper road base how can they do anything extra? honestly a lot of the roads are in an awful state and need rebuild from bottom up to stop sinkage. the whole subject is a uxb waiting to explode. only a matter of time....Probably should get some treatment though, when you consider the hoo-ha about how dirty the rivers are. Some videos going about of very nasty scummy water draining off roads into watercourses; all that brake dust and rubber/plastic contamination can’t be good.
I mean, when you consider that some folks would like to see farmers put in jail for allowing a cow to poop into the river
paying people need to wake up and see whats going on with their money they are bullied into putting into these organisations
I know i can poop in the sea!!
- Location
- Northumberland
yep… don’t get me started!
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
All those yachties in their fibreglass ecological time capsules just pump it straight out no, um, messing.
And I like sailing….
TheTallGuy
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- Cambridgeshire
Most modern road schemes will involve separate drainage schemes that include settlement and balancing ponds to help reduce pollution from run off. There's also often a system of penstocks or valves and tanks to handle fuel and chemical spillages on major roads.
not unknown for a cruise ship to do the same
Yes on new roads they have done a good job but old roads far outweight the new ones? Anyway farmers pollute, Councils pollute and water companies are the biggest polluters... at least we all want to fix it these days? In the past just flushing it away was simple and cheap!
The by roads a roads and b roads don't have anything like,e that around here for miles I know them like the back of my hand
Straight into the minor watercourses sometimes that's a river .
Literally Straight off.
Exactly.. we farmers know the road network pollution monitoring better than the Councils and Water Companies and could fix the problem for them for half the cost...
How much will the council pay me for sediment and balancing ponds on my land now i dont get BPS.. Answer... Nothing!!
How much will my water company or DEFRA pay me?? You know the Answer!!
GeorgeK
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- Leicestershire
I see more and more of what are obviously sinkholes on roads caused by failing road drains. Councils treat them like potholes, keep pouring tarmac in, don't seem to scratch their heads and wonder where all the material keeps going!
TheTallGuy
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- Cambridgeshire
Yes, but consider where the majority of the polluting mileage occurs - towns/cities with combined sewer systems and main routes, dual carriageways and motorways. The amount produced on minor routes is small in comparison.
Some may not have noticed that the vast majority of roads have been in place for 50 or 100s of years but river pollution only started with the mad rush to build new housing estates with their sewage overflowing into old sewage works.
The same applies to fields that have been been around for at least 50 years without much change in farming style yet again river pollution is strangly a recent thing, you don't have to be Einstein to work out where the real pollution is coming from!