A recent comment on Information requests:

Dear Owl,

As a Budleigh resident I was shocked at the FOI describing the unmonitored discharge coming out of the SWW Lime Kiln sewage pumping station into the Kersbrook.  INTO A SITE INHABITED BY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL KINGFISHER which has brought such joy to many.

I cannot understand how the Environment Agency, which has spent so much money on the Lower Otter Restoration Project (LORP), could possibly allow this illegal, disgusting practice to continue.

I also cannot understand how the LORP project included the replacement of the old sewage outfall pipe which will allow raw sewage to continue to discharge on the eastern side of the Otter Head. ( 269.69 hours in 2022) The money should have been spent upgrading the sewage system so no untreated sewage needed to be discharged into the sea.

The Otter estuary is now a nature reserve and attracting so many new species but has raw sewage from places such as Honiton, Newton Poppleford etc.etc. passing through it.