Elliot Morley: Information on the total amount of solid waste entering the sewerage network in England and Wales is not collected for regulatory purposes. Ofwat obtains information on the total actual sewage from the ten water and sewerage companies in England and Wales. Aggregate figures for 2002–03 are as follows: Sewage—Volumes Megalitres per day Uunmeasured household sewage 6,468 ...
Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty's Government when in the last 12 months there have been accidental sewage spillages into the River Thames from the Little Marlow sewage treatment works. To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total volume of sewage pumped into the River Thames from the Little Marlow sewage treatment works between 19 April and 27 April. To ask Her Majesty's Government whether sewage...
George Eustice: ..., undertaken by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), investigated the presence and quantity of microplastic particles entering the marine environment after sewage treatment. The report concluded microplastics are released into surface waters through sewage treatment directly, or via sewage sludge from agricultural composting. It also concluded that more...
Mr George Wallace: My hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Leslie Huckfield) mentioned sewage. I cannot understand why sewage has to be mixed up with pure water in this Bill. The Government should think again and leave sewage to those who are capable of dealing with it. The local authorities already handling sewage disposal should be left to it. I have received strong representations from the City of...
Ruth Cadbury: ...for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for introducing this debate. I share the anger of many constituents, Members and the petitioners at the actions of water companies as they continue to pump sewage into our rivers and seas. As another riparian MP, I know how important the Thames is—it gives space for rowing, paddleboarding and kayaking. It helps local businesses such as boat companies...
Elliot Morley: It is important to draw a distinction between treated and untreated sewerage discharges. Treated effluent discharges from sewage treatment works and some intermittent discharges from overflows during wet weather are measured in cubic metres. Discharges consented by the Environment Agency are made to the Thames by three water companies: Thames Water (inland and estuary); Anglian Water and...
Daisy Cooper: ...in this place. That said, it is extraordinary that we are still having to debate this subject—that we are having to talk about measures to prevent and reduce the discharge of raw untreated sewage into our rivers, our lakes and our chalkstreams and on to our beaches. This is just so obviously wrong and it is extraordinary that we are still having to talk about it. Let me start with a...
...Date of Incident Place of Incident 25 April 2001 Murray Road/ Cullen Road, East Kilbride 5 May 2001 Murrayhill Road, East Kilbride 6 June 2001 Stapleton Road Sewage Pumping Station, Annan 13 June 2001 Philipshill Sewage Treatment Works, East Kilbride 14 June 2001 Public park to rear of Headhouse...
Therese Coffey: Pollution caused by sewage is mainly addressed through the implementation of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations, which have set standards for the collection and treatment of sewage since 1994. Since privatisation around £9 billion has been invested to reduced pollution from sewage treatment with much of this focusing on discharges in coastal areas. In England, between 2015 and 2020,...
Sadiq Khan: There are 7 sewage treatment works in London all managed by Thames Water. Sewage Treatment Works discharging into the Tidal Thames: Hogsmill sewage treatment works discharges into the Hogsmill river with a small flow being pumped to the Beverley Brook. Deephams sewage treatment works discharges into the Salmons Brook (and then the Lower Lea).
Anthony Steen: I will stop reading when I wish to stop reading, not when the hon. Gentleman wishes me to stop reading. At Thurlestone there is a sewage outfall which is at 300 times the Common Market beach pollution level. I am afraid that, in the summer, a swimmer contacted hepatitis A as a result of contact with sewage flowing into the sea there. At Street, some way along the coastline, raw sewage flows...
Jim McMahon: I will make some progress. Since we presented that Bill to the House for debate, 40,000 sewage dumps have taken place. Labour’s plan would have ensured that polluters pay the moment they start dumping sewage, not months or years after the event, with investigations and lawyers needed to make a ruling. As such, I ask the Secretary of State whether her Department has considered the potential...
Lord Williams of Mostyn: ..., it would be a matter for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's Rivers Agency, as the body responsible for maintenance of the Connswater River as a drainage channel. With regard to sewage-related litter from sewage overflows into the river, the Department of the Environment's Environment & Heritage Service (EHS) is at present in discussion with the Water Service of the...
Phil Woolas: ...the UK which failed to meet the minimum standards during the 2007 bathing season. The reasons for failure at these nine sites are set out in the following table. These were mainly a combination of sewage pollution and/or diffuse water pollution from agriculture. In addition, eight of these nine failures were affected by exceptionally heavy or persistent rainfall, as this summer was the...
Baroness Hayman of Ullock: Surfers Against Sewage has an annual water quality report which found that water companies have actually increased the amount of raw sewage dumped into our rivers and seas—an 87% increase from last year. The Government have now said that they have the tools to act and hold water companies to account. I am pleased that they now see that sewage discharges are completely unacceptable. The...
Rebecca Pow: At some sewage treatment works, where the permitted treatment capacity may be exceeded due to rainfall, storm tanks form part of the treatment process to limit spills of storm sewage (mixture of sewage and rainfall) to the water environment. These discharges are permitted by the Environment Agency under the Environmental Permitting Regulations. The number of sewage treatment works and...
Lord Gardiner of Kimble: Phosphorus inputs to English rivers and lakes are mainly from sewage effluent, including contributions from food and detergents and drainage from agricultural land. Dramatic reductions from very elevated river phosphorus concentrations in the 1980 and 1990s have been achieved in recent decades through reduced detergent phosphorous contributions, the introduction of phosphorus reduction...
Lord Rooker: The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) has been responsible for waste management licensing, through which the application of sewage sludge is controlled, since the introduction in December 2003 of the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003. Ten sites in Northern Ireland have been registered as exempt for the purposes of land-spreading sewage sludges: Altarichard...
Mr Nigel Spearing: In the past, profits have been made from the supply of water—indeed, that still occurs in some places. Does the Minister agree that profits have never been made from the transfer and disposal of sewage? As he is now taxing sewage disposal by way of contribution to the Consolidated Fund, whereas before the Consolidated Fund assisted sewage disposal, what is the philosophical reason for...
Mr Anthony Speller: I hope that my hon. Friend realises that the phrase "primary treatment" just means that the sewage is chopped up and does not improve the position. Is he aware that 118 licensed consents for disposal of sewage—either raw or partially treated—have been granted in the Bristol area, and that the sewage goes into the Bristol channel? I thank my hon. Friend for the good figures in the Finance...
