Sewerage dumped in rivers

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Talk of banning sewage being spread on farm land in America due to a build up contaminants. We eventually drink the same water after it has been through the cycle but each time its more contaminated with residual chemicals.

 

[wr.]

I've been saying this for years. I was recently talking to a friend who works for Welsh Water and she told me that if farmers refused to take the sewage, WW would really be in the cart and it would present one massive problem for Welsh government. Same goes for England.

 

[bluebell]

Sewage dumped in rivers? Come here and take a look, evertime we have some rain, and its rained here nearly every day or other day for months, the main sewer that crosses and runs parellel to my local river (crouch), dumps massive amounts of sewage out of the manholes in my fields? Which then flows into the river. Our neighbour must have complained to the waterboard, his just moved in?, because just before christmas we , had six water board vans, staffed with "bods" all clad in high vis atire, to take alook? More interested in getting into the cafe? To do what? Is got worse over the last 20 odd years as more and more houses are built and "plumbed into the system", what it will be like with the currant, predictions of thousands more new homes i hate think about it?

 

[slackjawedyokel]

Sewage dumped in rivers? Come here and take a look, evertime we have some rain, and its rained here nearly every day or other day for months, the main sewer that crosses and runs parellel to my local river (crouch), dumps massive amounts of sewage out of the manholes in my fields? Which then flows into the river. Our neighbour must have complained to the waterboard, his just moved in?, because just before christmas we , had six water board vans, staffed with "bods" all clad in high vis atire, to take alook? More interested in getting into the cafe? To do what? Is got worse over the last 20 odd years as more and more houses are built and "plumbed into the system", what it will be like with the currant, predictions of thousands more new homes i hate think about it?

Does that end up being counted as ‘agricultural runoff’ because it’s on your field before it ends up in the watercourse?

 

[bluebell]

Most of the infrustructure here in the UK is outdated, undercapicity, i remember this mains sewer system bring installed, when we were kids, back in the 1970s, before that, our village and outlying areas had no mains drainage, we had sewage tank in the back garden, that the council would come round to empty, ( at a discount), next door neighbour, used to pump is overflowing one over his garden at night rather than pay to have it emptied?, this was as i said put in to serve the local area in the 1970s, since then id imagine the population and with that the number of dwellings as tripled and still increasing? Overloading the system?

 

[shortshift]

I've been saying this for years. I was recently talking to a friend who works for Welsh Water and she told me that if farmers refused to take the sewage, WW would really be in the cart and it would present one massive problem for Welsh government. Same goes for England.

Would have a more positive out come than protesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bogweevil]

Comparative assessment of the risks associated with use of manure and sewage sludge in Danish agriculture
2020 Jakob Magid*, Kathrine Eggers Pedersen, Max Hansen, Nina Cedergreen, Kristian Koefoed Brandt

*Corresponding author for this work
National Food InstituteResearch Group for Chemical Risk Assessment and GMO
University of Copenhagen

Abstract

Sewage sludge is widely used as an organic fertilizer, but also presents several risks to environmental and human health. This chapter presents a quantitative environmental risk assessment (ERA) and a qualitative human health risk assessment associated with farmland application of sewage sludge as compared to cattle and pig slurry. The analysis reflects conditions pertaining to Denmark, and neighboring European countries. The quantitative ERA was performed by estimating the cumulative risk of 138 (sludge) or 20 (slurry) identified contaminants 6 months after the 100th year of application. Environmental risk was quantified as the ratio of the predicted environmental concentration (PEC) divided by the predicted no effect concentration (PNEC). PEC/PNEC was 2–3 for sewage sludge and cattle slurry, whereas it was 8 for pig slurry. Metal compounds (especially Zn and Cu) accounted for the majority (> 50%) of the environmental risk associated with farmland application of animal slurries, whereas phthalates and triclocarban collectively accounted for more than 50% of the corresponding risk associated with sewage sludge. Human health risks via dietary exposure to potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and pharmaceuticals in food crops were concluded not to cause any reason for concern. Based on reviewed literature, we further conclude that Danish sewage sludge does not represent a higher risk than animal manure for environmental dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Overall, it is concluded that sewage sludge from contemporary Danish society does not constitute a higher risk to soil organisms or human health than cattle or pig slurry.

Source: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publication...nt-of-the-risks-associated-with-use-of-manure

 

[wr.]

Would have a more positive out come than protesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Definitely, but it will never happen because the stuff is given away free.
I wonder why

 

[steveR]

Comparative assessment of the risks associated with use of manure and sewage sludge in Danish agriculture
2020 Jakob Magid*, Kathrine Eggers Pedersen, Max Hansen, Nina Cedergreen, Kristian Koefoed Brandt

*Corresponding author for this work
National Food InstituteResearch Group for Chemical Risk Assessment and GMO
University of Copenhagen

Abstract

Sewage sludge is widely used as an organic fertilizer, but also presents several risks to environmental and human health. This chapter presents a quantitative environmental risk assessment (ERA) and a qualitative human health risk assessment associated with farmland application of sewage sludge as compared to cattle and pig slurry. The analysis reflects conditions pertaining to Denmark, and neighboring European countries. The quantitative ERA was performed by estimating the cumulative risk of 138 (sludge) or 20 (slurry) identified contaminants 6 months after the 100th year of application. Environmental risk was quantified as the ratio of the predicted environmental concentration (PEC) divided by the predicted no effect concentration (PNEC). PEC/PNEC was 2–3 for sewage sludge and cattle slurry, whereas it was 8 for pig slurry. Metal compounds (especially Zn and Cu) accounted for the majority (> 50%) of the environmental risk associated with farmland application of animal slurries, whereas phthalates and triclocarban collectively accounted for more than 50% of the corresponding risk associated with sewage sludge. Human health risks via dietary exposure to potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and pharmaceuticals in food crops were concluded not to cause any reason for concern. Based on reviewed literature, we further conclude that Danish sewage sludge does not represent a higher risk than animal manure for environmental dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Overall, it is concluded that sewage sludge from contemporary Danish society does not constitute a higher risk to soil organisms or human health than cattle or pig slurry.

Source: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publication...nt-of-the-risks-associated-with-use-of-manure

Cynic that I am .... I wonder who funded that research??

 

[shortshift]

Definitely, but it will never happen because the stuff is given away free.
I wonder why