Sewage monitors faulty at seaside spots in England and Wales, data shows | Environment Agency figures indicate people could be swimming in human waste this summer without warning

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  4. Why bother monitoring at all? Just do what the motor industry did. Spend money to teach the public that certain areas (in this case, the sea) are now dangerous and out of bounds. Get governments to invent a new crime of jayswimming. Swimming will now only be allowed in authorised locations. These locations will probably be fewer and in more demand, so they’ll need to be maintained with money. The Tories can get one of their buddies to run one of these things.

    It’s a win-win solution… for the Tories and their buddies.

  5. Gave evidence to a court years ago for a pollution incident where the alarm had been going off for a week before the company investigated!

  6. I regret moving to Bristol for my education. I have met fantastic Englishmen but it really is a shithole, and I can’t wrap my mind around how any one would allow it to degenerate into this.

  7. As the UK has a Gov’t whose speciality is talking Shit it’s little surprise that the country is now surrounded by it.

  8. The [Safer Seas Service Interactive Map](https://www.sas.org.uk/map/) run by surfers against sewage will show the status of major monitoring points but unfortunately these will only cover major outlets right on the coast.

    Smaller outflow pipes and stations that are a couple of miles inland on a river or estuary are not shown. Nitrates, horticultural run off and chemical waste that goes directly into rivers is also not monitored.

    It’s also worth noting that many of the monitors shown are seasonal so they are turned off during the winter, a time when most sewage outfalls are active due to rain and data is not
    collected.

  10. Southern Water boss Lawrence Gosden needs every bag of dog nuts at your disposal thrown in his front garden. He then might understand pollution.

  17. So genuine question I know a lot of people are blaming the torys and I get that, but why have we suddenly had to start doing this? I can’t never remember in my life this happening before so why is it a sudden issue

  20. And people were angry the EU wouldn’t let British shellfisheries sell Into the EU without purification. Why would they? British shellfish is fairly provably absolutely full of piss and shit and whatever faecal bacteria they’ve picked up from doing so.

  22. Back in the 90’s I was at a beach. There was a concrete toilet block with a great long pipe coming out the end and heading into the sea. As the tide went out more and more of the pipe was exposed – sitting on little steel support legs. Eventually it was sitting completely out of the water – about 20ft long and the end about a foot above the water. Kids were climbing on it and jumping into the sea, while their parents reclined on towels either side.

    I’ve no idea what they thought it was, but it was clear none of them had made the connection with the toilets it was coming out of. The public really do think it all vanishes into a black hole when you flush

  23. So if myself or my dog gets ill from swimming in the sea because it’s fully infested with shit and sewage when people aren’t informed, what can I do about it?

  27. Can we have a three-word slogan please to chant?

    “Enough is enough”

    “Shit on the beach” (not quite)

    “Brexit gone to shits” (nearly)

    “No more shit!”

    Yes, that should do.

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