…who then posted on “X”:
“Water firm drives 240 truckloads of sewage a day through town ‘to pump into sea’.”
Yep, you read that correctly.
Geoff Crawford of End Sewage Convoys And Poollution Exmouth (ESCAPE) added a little bit more background for Feargal on the “cause and effect” of the burst sewer and the need for trucks dumping sewage into the nearest storm overflow at Maer 24/7 in case SWW might be a little “economical with the facts”:
“He’s not admitting to the fact that adding a new higher volume pump at Phear Park increased the pressure and burst the sewer. He’s also not saying that the reason they do that was to increase the sewage flow to Sandy Bay treatment works and to allow more overflows to sea. Hence the new £14m pipe line they are installing between Maer Lane and Sandy Bay. There’s a lot he’s not telling you.”
The Environment Agency shows where it’s all being dumped [In case readers really can’t believe that sewage is dumped so close to the beach – and not just at ebbing tides either!]
East Devon Watch 