Please find enclosed below the Dear Colleague that I have received from the Minister concerning the Storm Overflow Action Plan:
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Please find enclosed below the Dear Colleague that I have received from the Minister concerning the Storm Overflow Action Plan:
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March 12, 2024
” We have also driven up sewage overflow monitoring from just 7% under Labour in 2010 to 100% by the end of 2023, giving us the tools we need to hold water companies to account. ” This is just not believable. Sewage overflow monitoring nowhere near covers 100% of the sites where such overflows can occur. Some occur in regular and predictable places- these may well be well covered by monitoring. However – in flood conditions sewage overflows occur in all kinds of unpredictable places- often where they have never occurred before. These overflows are NOT monitored at all- how could they be ? no one knows where they are going to happen.
Robbie Moore needs to be made aware of this ridiculous comment.
March 12, 2024
” Yesterday, we confirmed that water companies will invest an additional £180m over the next 12 months to prevent more than 8,000 sewage spills polluting English waterways, following the Secretary of State directing water and sewage companies last December to measurably reduce
sewage spills over the next year. ”
So is Robbie Moore stating that this money will prevent 8,000 sewage spills over the next 12 months ? – or is he saying that they will ” measurably reduce the 8,000 sewage spills as theSoS has directed.?
Which is it ? Prevent or reduce ? A reduction could be from 8000 to 7999 and still claim to be a reduction- whereas prevent means reducing 8,000 to zero . Quite a difference.
March 12, 2024
Shouldn’t quality standards for water delivery and avoidance of pollution be set by government, instead of hoping that urging a water company would achieve something tolerable?