There's been an awful lot of sewage released by @SouthernWater in the last 24 hour 💩
This includes four separate releases that are over 20 hours long and still ongoing in Lee-On-Solent, Langstone Harbour and Ryde (IOW) which has TWO of them 🤮
Here's the list on ongoing releases, as of 8am.
As you can see Ryde has had a 25.72 hour release from its Appley Park outfall and a 23.42 release from its Prince Consort outfall.
So that's a combined 49+ of sewage there in a single day and its still going.
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It seems that @SouthernWater have updated their BeachBouy interactive map.
They will no longer change the colour of a bathing location to red if a sewage (CSO) release doesn't meet certain criteria. (1/5)
On the face of it, this appears to be an incredibly cynical attempt to make their sewage map look less like the one below (last October) and attract less criticism and negative publicity as a result. (2/5)
It contravenes promises they made at the recent public meeting in Whitstable, hosted by @RosieDuffield1, when they vowed to be more transparent. (3/5)
We are concerned by the @Conservatives response to the ongoing sewage crisis and the manner in which they are trying to shape the narrative and rewrite history. A thread ⤵️
In it @mariacaulfield, MP for Lewes and Minister of State for Health, references last year's House of Commons vote on a sewage amendment to the Environment Bill, which we fought for and @Conservatives blocked.