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Mistress Rose

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 23 8:37 am Post subject:
Very definitely and that is not the only reason.

dpack

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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 23 12:41 pm Post subject:
two conflicts of interest and he has barely started the job

dpack

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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 23 8:16 pm Post subject:
a small step etc

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 23 9:01 am Post subject:
It would of course help if Defra and the other bodies had enough staff to monitor the state of all water bodies. The staff levels have had to be reduced because of budget cuts so that very few tests are actually carried out.

dpack

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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 23 3:14 pm Post subject:
FTFT kill and throw pennies to the bystanders to distract them see above, if any of us still are on the inside, let me know and i will arrange secure data shared no one scared

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 23 7:53 am Post subject:
It seems Yorkshire Water had to do improvements as well. I think this shows that using remote sensing without anyone checking doesn't work though. If I am reading this correctly it took a long time to find a plank of wood that should have easily been observed by a person.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 23 10:33 pm Post subject:
the side orders are interesting as well

dpack

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 24 2:40 am Post subject:

scum on water

in other news even the BBC's Look North reported citizen testing of the water/mud which has escaped the river into the city streets and parks for months, it has dangerous levels of coliforms(including E. coli strains, crypto etc) no need to test for all the other components of untreated sewage if those show in large amounts
the Ouse in York's total O2 level and BOD have gone from pollution cat 2.5 a few years ago to cat 4 to 5 as a base level(0 is pristine, 5 is open sewer)
there was some overspill in flood conditions, now it seems most of the load is discharged untreated into the river as normal practice and even more when it floods

hint it "floods" quite a lot even when it isn't raining much, when it does rain and flood it is worse

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 24 9:42 am Post subject:

The performance of the sewage disposal companies (which is the aspect here and some water providers don't do both) is abysmal. This has been exacerbated by the takeovers which have sometimes lumbered the company with the massive loan debt used to buy the company. Imo, the only way to sort this mess out is to renationalise them. The nationalised system worked as long as it was properly funded, but often wasn't.

This was not the best way to deal with the situation by the EA and Ofwat. Discussions are needed between them, but an ordinary meeting would have looked less like them cosying up to the sewage companies. The prices quoted are high, but not outstandingly so for London I wouldn't think. A daytime meeting with a cup of tea and a biscuit might have been very much more appropriate though.

dpack

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 24 9:15 am Post subject:

back in "fresh water" the concerned citizens(a technical term i use for the full range of environmental activists) have used basic sampling and science to demonstrate the official"no problems are detected"theme which has been the EA and water monopolists defence of the indefensible over a decade or more of increasing water degradation

there are probably some in the EA who do want to try to reduce the harms, they have been underfunded and undermined by government to the point where they have few resources even if they have the will to enforce the inadequate, but what we have, regs on discharges to waterways(and other forms of poisoning the place, critters and us
for instance, ongoing and legacy waste disposal issues that are far more serious than a very visible old kitchen strewn along a lane)

evidence is evidence which is far more use than "we do not see anything(cos we did not look)"

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 9:35 am Post subject:

While it is more difficult and requires specialist equipment or money to pay for the analysis, I think it would be stronger evidence if certain chemicals were found in the river water. Higher levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and other pollutants found below than above discharges would show exactly how much they are putting into the river.

I also wish that the papers would understand that Avon means river, but that is being a bit pedantic.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 10:25 am Post subject:

O2and BOD(fermented water) are pence a go as wet chemistry

a pre loved HPLC and some consumables/standards is not daft money, per test it is not expensive

a lab could do pro bono for little more than the time involved, i could set up a garage lab for less than a few grand

npk ,O2, basic microbiology and a selection of likely organics is pretty easy to check in aquatic environmental samples

larger life forms needs little more than a net, sieves, waders and a microscope etc
this interweb thing will help with how to and why for the new to the game
basic analysis for common pollutants and probable "odd ones" is within well-informed citizen capacity
the historians can play context with old records etc
and so on

it would be better to have a well resourced big toothed official regulator with extensive monitoring and zero tolerance to polluters, that would make being clean the best option
we haven't at the mo, evidence and loud pointing from concerned citizens is a tactic that is legal and at the least troublesome to the polluter at best very troublesome for the polluter

after the event is too late, make polluting very expensive, financially and personally for company decision makers and for the shareholders, and difficult to do in secret or in full view with no chance of a meaningful rebuke which make it the most profitable option

gz

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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 10:27 am Post subject:
Avon= afon ( Cymraeg) and abhainn (Gàidhlig) both have the "V" sound like f in of. Wye also means water ..same root as Dwr and Uisge. It is heartbreaking how the Thames has degenerated..my cycling club president in the 70s had the work achievement of getting salmon back in the river, and other fish...I doubt that they are there now

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 11:14 am Post subject:
I hope Labour start the process of renationalising basic utilities.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 12:34 pm Post subject:

best part of 50 yrs a river i know well has gone from cat 5 = dead in any good way, via cat 1 to 2= not pristine wilderness but a healthy ecosystem with a bottom to top food chain with heron, kingfisher, brown trout or grayling at the top depending on the oxygenation from the shape and flow and the local ecosystem

and back to cat 5 dead from a combo of unregulated chem peeps having "incidents", assorted one off "private" misdemeanours and systematic discharges as that is cheaper than providing the sewerage services in the contract they have with the citizens
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other aquatic issues

re "well meaning" but not like that
2 mink* a mile did not help my well known river,

but it was healthy enough to support them and retain a full range aquatic ecosystem, although that was not "natural" after 150 years of human challenges

if i ever find out who "liberated" 9000 of the fluffy monsters, they have a problem

during the last few years of mink farm licences and objections to the trade, i was part of the anti mink thing to ensure no fool turned any loose
the wpc trying to be "nice" while we all had lunch, was quite surprised that cute and fluffy was not on my agenda, no vermin by any means was not the reasoning she had been briefed for

not on my watch, those things are ok in the middle of arboreal wetland wilderness a long way away, anywhere else they are usually dangeroos vermin
hey ho, the pollution will kill their food, which should thin them out,
i should have got a few hats when i could

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