I live in a part of England where we can swim in the local rivers, something that blows my mind as I would of never dreamed of getting in the river bann when I was younger. I’m home and see this raw sewage leak in the local park running into the river. I reported it to DAERA who said they’ll deal with it but it makes me sad how bad the pollution is at home… will it ever change?

by Sea_Lab_1878

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  2. Good question, the infrastructure for the whole of the UK has required massive investment added to the many building projects that add to the burden of an already overloaded infrastructure. We can hope it gets resolved but as to timeline, who knows.

  3. Stephen J Reid done a twenty minute video about pollution at the coast near Jordanstown. I’ve friends that swim near there and I sent them it. 

    They dismissed it as it being “further up the coast”. Absolutely stunned me. 

    So if people who are literally swimming in pollution don’t care, I fail to see how anything will change. 

    P.S. For anyone that doesn’t know, swimming pools exist. 

  5. If you can drink it you can swim in it ..

    Fancy a cuppa Lough Neagh Soup?

  6. Iirc the UK lost access to ECHA after Brexit and there has been a significant drop in the availability of UK based labs for safe Water testing. Water standards have definitely dropped across the UK since Brexit. That, and the chronic underfunding for water services in Northern Ireland.

  7. But did they say when they’ll deal with it? I doubt it. Andrew Muir doesn’t know his arsehole from his elbow.

  8. The UK is totally polluted, sewage pumped out everywhere. I wouldn’t swim in a river in England if you paid me. Or here for that matter

  9. Northern Ireland’s loughs and rivers are disgusting. The coastline is heading the same way. Belfast Lough is on it’s last legs. I used to swim at Helens Bay weekly years ago. Went recently and the water quality/visible litter was minging.

    One thing I actually miss from other places I have lived is proper wilderness and lack of pollution. Like 90% of the trees have been cut down here and we are just one monoblock of farmland with zero national parks. This obviously has an impact on our rivers, especially when politicians/farmers/the average person doesn’t give a fuck.

    Most of England’s rivers are rough as well. They’ve fucked it too but at least there seems to be some sort of attempt to address it. They also have national parks which make a difference.

  11. Report it to DFI too. I had a drain like this reported and they were out in a few hours to sort.

  12. The water systems in the UK are horrendous and allowed to make mistake after mistake without any repercussions.

  13. Ferghal Sharkey’s doing his best. Unlike the politicians.

  15. Considering all the recent reports about the amount of sewage getting dumped into rivers, I don’t know why anyone would consider swimming in them

  16. Pollution incidents get classified and responded to based on severity, given its the weekend the only ones likely to get an immediate response are big fishkills from silage/slurry leaks where 100’s of fish are being killed.

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