I am certainly not condoning sewage discharges, but until this is investigated they don't know this was the cause. It may have been someone serving food to the athletes without properly washed hands or some other cause.
There has been an investigation round here about the deteriorating water quality on a local beach. The cause seems to have been a historic toilet outflow on the pier, which has now been sorted, so hopefully that will improve the bathing water quality. Not that the sewage disposal company is completely innocent as their discharges into the sea elsewhere are awful.
Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6612 Location: New England (In the US of A)
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 23 9:59 am Post subject:
MR, how is a historic toilet outflow just now causing deteriorating conditions?
You're taking about one specific waste line from one individual (or set of) toilet(s)?
It seems it was 'blocked' but must have been discharging something over the last year or so as the water quality has deteriorated seriously over that period. I think they are still looking at other potential seepages from other old sewers along the sea front, but sorting that does seem to be making a difference. The properties along there date back over 100 years, so quite possible that they have cracked clay pipes discharging into the surrounding earth.
from the 1970's assorted folk almost cooperated to make things better, that has gone and here we are
as a fisher for dinner, wildlife watcher etc and having done a proper river survey of 15 miles of the colne in 1976 i find the current situation unacceptable
Sadly there seems to be little coordination to try to improve things. The bodies that should be doing something are underfunded and the 'official' line is that all is well. Defra is far too big and too remote, but the people on the ground are taking samples, hopefully correctly, and the analysis shows the true state as that would have to be done professionally.
Round here they have already taken some farm land out of use in 'mitigation' for house building. A new development of several hundred houses has been objected to by both I think Natural England and the NHS, on the grounds of extra pollution and lack of health resources. On the other hand there has been a push to regrow sea grass in some of the local harbours, so some doing the right thing and others the wrong one.
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