Britain’s Summer of Sewage
17.08.2022Excerpt: According to data gathered by environmental campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), there has been storm sewage discharge into the waters at beaches in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, Essex, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Cumbria. After an unusually hot summer with little rain, the heatwave breaking and the heavy rain has led to water companies pumping sewage water directly into the sea as they empty overflows. A tweet by Martyn Craddock showing the sewage emptying into Seaford, East Sussex, clearly shows the sewage discharging into the sea. Such spillages of human waste into the water environment are increasingly in the public eye, as witnessed in the BBC’s coverage earlier in the year of the untreated sewage being released into Langstone harbour nearRead more