From the many Combined Sewage Outfalls that have not been updated since their installation in Victorian times despite far higher population discharges.
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- Continuing Sewage Pollution of Beaches
- EC to take the UK to Court over Waste Water Directive 91/271/EEC
- MARINET member explains storm sewage problem at Whitburn
- Press Release – British Bathing Waters
- A Response to DEFRA
- UK Infringement on Bathing Waters
- Wastewater and Sewage Treatment
- Blue Flags, Blue Flag look-alikes and Jolly Rogers
The European Commission has today decided to take the United Kingdom to the European Court of Justice over non-compliance with EU environment legislation. The Commission is concerned that the urban waste water collecting systems and treatment facilities in London and Whitburn in North East England are inadequate and a threat to human health.
from Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) being used by Northumbrian Water to avoid the building of properly sized rainwater and foul water sewers, and adequate sewage treatment works.
UK Government concealing serious health risks.
Here is MARINET’s correspondence with DEFRA concerning ‘Bathing Water Newsletter’ detailing the implementation of the forthcoming revised 2006/7/EC Bathing Waters Directive.
The story of our work with the Urban Waste Water Directive
The reasoning, the methodology, terminology and results
Just what do those blue flags mean?
