Sewage: Sussex beaches closed after wastewater discharge

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Beaches in East Sussex have been closed after untreated wastewater was released into the sea at the shoreline.

Beaches in Bexhill and Normans Bay were shut after "significant" electrical issues at a pumping station.

In neighbouring Hastings, the borough council also advised people from swimming at Pelham Beach due to a pollution risk.

A Southern Water spokesman said the firm was "deeply sorry" and it understood "the distress this causes".

The liquid, including sewage, started being released when the primary power and back-up system failed on Wednesday.

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Power was restored by the evening, with emergency generators in place.

Juliette Wills is a member of the Bexhill SeaGals, a sea-swimming group with about 1,000 members.

She said the sewage release will affect her mental and physical health because the swimming sessions were more than just a "splash around", and that they also help her while living with a disability.

She believes water companies should be "held accountable", and added: "It is unbelievable and outrageous that the water companies can just continue to get away with this."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-62589667

[Swan]

Did this happen in Hastings last year as well??

[bots]

yeah it's certainly happened in the past

[arista]

[The liquid, including sewage, started being released
when the primary power and back-up system failed on Wednesday.]


Yes Electrical Faults
They Failed to update the website
People swimming had no alerts

[hijaxers]

[The liquid, including sewage, started being released
when the primary power and back-up system failed on Wednesday.]


Yes Electrical Faults
They Failed to update the website
People swimming had no alerts

These rotten useless water companies paying themselves millions and have not improved one iota for years, they all need bringing to book as they seem happier to pay the fines and keep polluting rather than fix any problems. The whole country are sick of these robbing gits ! Funny how we have to pay fortunes to be 'green' and they fill the sea and waterways with s**t.

[The Slim Reaper]

Tories voted to allow this to happen last year, and they've been dumping ever since. Why are you surprised?

I keep telling you about tories.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10125805/Fury-Tory-MPs-vote-allow-water-companies-dump-raw-sewage-Britains-rivers-seas.html

Fury as Tory MPs vote to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into Britain's rivers and seas

[arista]

Yes,
Labour Leader Starmer,
was going to buy them back
put them under Government control.


But he has now changed his mind.

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SkyNews Text:
[Water bosses taking a 20% rise in bonuses also
makes the front of The Guardian,
adding it comes while their companies continue
to pump sewage into the sea]

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[UserSince2005]

If people didn’t eat so much we’d all be skinny and **** less

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[arista]

Last Night ITV1HD Tonight
"Who Is Polluting Our Water"
Last night 8:30PM


It showed the state of the Wye
and the sewage that is poured into it.



It is just a matter of time before it enters our supply.

Much too much sewage is coming from some
Industrial Chicken Farms.

One good farm had a Furnace to burn
the chicken poop into
a safe ash.
But that investment is rare.


George Eustice MP
would not speak on this programme.

[Swan]

This will hurt the struggling seaside towns. A family i know has cancelled their planned trip to Hastings this weekend.

[arista]

This will hurt the struggling seaside towns. A family i know has cancelled their planned trip to Hastings this weekend.

That's fair enough


It has a stink, as well.

[arista]

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BBC Text :
[Comments by the head of the Environment Agency
in which he said people should come
to terms with the idea of drinking
recycled sewage water in order to
help avoid shortages.]

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[arista]

7:30PM - 8PM Ch4HD

Tonight Dispatches
shows 900 sewage pipes breaking the law,
the Conservative cuts,
stopped the proper checks



Reported on GMBHD itv

[Oliver_W]

For some reason, Sussex and toxic discharge go together perfectly...

#RentFree

[arista]

The Reporter/Presenter
Jimmy Doherty who is presenting the Ch4 Documentary
was on GMBHD it at 7:25AM.

Showed an outlet that is classified
as "off the books"


He is standing next to it
speaking to an expert,
and says it Stinks of sewer.

[Zizu]

Apparently some companies in the Lake District have been pumping waste chemicals and sewage into Lake Windermere for years .

It showed ONE scientist in a little boat taking samples and he’s supposed to keep check on all the lakes ..

Windermere could become “ecologically dead” because of the amount of sewage being pumped into its waters, campaigners have warned.


Quote

“The number one thing that is killing Windermere is phosphorus pollution,” he says. Staniek says the data shows there's a direct correlation between Lake Windermere's water quality and the sewage that is being pumped into it. “Sewage adds phosphorus into the water, which acts as a fertiliser for algae,” he explains”


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