Saltburn raw sewage

[HarryVegas]

From North East Bylines ...

Raw sewage waterfall at Hazel Grove Beck today

Photos of raw sewage waterfall created by an outflow at Hazel Grove Beck, Saltburn today.

northeastbylines.co.uk

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Dear me

 

[ThePrisoner]

It's a **** business

 

[Easterside_Red]

It's a **** business

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Or as one effluent engineer once told me "it might be sh1t to you but it's my bread and butter".

 

[Nobby_Barnes]

Or as one effluent engineer once told me "it might be sh1t to you but it's my bread and butter".

 

[ThePrisoner]

Rejoice. We'd never have been able to do this if we were still in the EU.

 

[JM14]

What an awful place the uk is becoming to live. It’s worth getting out while you can

 

[r00fie1]

BREXIT:
Get The Job Done!

 

[UTB70]

Puts you off going for a paddle in the sea. Heard about the triathlon comletitors getting diarrhoea up in sunderland swiming in it.

 

[HarryVegas]

And all the time, as Julia points out in the article, Northumbria Water continue to make massive profits while pumping this stuff onto what is actually a public right of way before it goes straight into the sea. Obscene.

 

[Smogonsea]

Absolute disgrace. We are living in a ‘modern’ country existing on a Victorian sewer system. We build more and more houses for massive profit but they just link into existing sewers.

 

[RexKramer]

And all the time, as Julia points out in the article, Northumbria Water continue to make massive profits while pumping this stuff onto what is actually a public right of way before it goes straight into the sea. Obscene.

It isn't pumped out. It's a CSO/SSO and the alternative is flooding residents.

 

[Laughing]

57 triathletes got ill after competing in sunderland due to effluence in the sea.

 

[Billy69_uk]

What an awful place the uk is becoming to live. It’s worth getting out while you can

Everything this government is responsible for delivering to the Uk public is absolutely broken, almost beyond repair. They are not delivering anything that can be considered fit for purpose.

and no one will ever be held accountable.

 

[ThePrisoner]

It isn't pumped out. It's a CSO/SSO and the alternative is flooding residents.

The water companies have had over 30 years to fix this by building interceptors and treatment facilities. They are only interested in milking the customers who are trapped in a monopoly. As was designed by Thatcher.

 

[RexKramer]

The water companies have had over 30 years to fix this by building interceptors and treatment facilities. They are only interested in milking the customers who are trapped in a monopoly. As was designed by Thatcher.

Tyneside has an Interceptor and guess what, it still overflows during heavy rainfall. The only solution is to get rainwater out of they system.

 

[Redwurzel]

This is a good example of when the private sector model fails. The water companies do things to minimise cost to them which allows profit maximisation, they have little concern to external costs for society. Their priority stakeholders are share holders who often don't live near sewage outflows.

 

[ThePrisoner]

Tyneside has an Interceptor and guess what, it still overflows during heavy rainfall. The only solution is to get rainwater out of they system.

That's not possible though is it, as it would require digging up and replacing the drainage system of every house built before 1970 and the digging up of every road that they are on. Either that or knock them all down and start again.

 

[Nero]

Tyneside has an Interceptor and guess what, it still overflows during heavy rainfall. The only solution is to get rainwater out of they system.

The Tyneside interceptor is pretty huge as well.

 

[Nero]

That's not possible though is it, as it would require digging up and replacing the drainage system of every house built before 1970 and the digging up of every road that they are on. Either that or knock them all down and start again.

One of the main issues is everything going into the same system effectively. Rain water joins effluent discharge from homes and business and during high rain times the system doesn’t cope.

This situation is definitely the fault of Thatcher’s neoliberal policies though. The private water industry is only required to be invest based on the amount of profits they make. It suits those companies to appear in debt, as that means they pay less tax and don’t have to invest as much. The biggest shocker with that it often they lend money from their shareholders. Who then receive repayments through interest before anything else. That doesn’t even include dividends payments.