Elliot Morley: ...taken, and is taking, a range of action to address nitrate pollution of English rivers. The EC's Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive contains provisions designed to reduce the adverse impact of sewage discharges on the water environment. The Directive, and Government policy building on the Directive's requirements, establishes that all discharges from sewage treatment plants serving...
Dr Jack Cunningham: ...BBC. I quote from the transcript of the programme: Is it right for a developed country like the United Kingdom at the end of the 20th century to be disposing of something like 6 million tonnes of sewage sludge in the waters around that country? You said"— referring to what the Prime Minister had said— 'It's treated sewage of course, it's not untreated. It's treated. Mr. Buerk then...
Sadiq Khan: My officers have contacted Thames Water for the requested data, Thames Water have acknowledged the request and we will share the information with you. Real-time data for sewage releases are not yet available from Thames Water, currently they are published annually, you can see 2021 data on the Thames Water website or on the Rivers Trust Sewage Map. Thames Water have made a commitment to...
Louise Ellman: Does the right hon. Gentleman recall that, at the end of the 1980s, when North West Water said that it did not consider further treatment of sewage on the Fylde coast necessary, and said that it would simply build a longer outfall pipe to put still-polluted sewage into the sea, Lancashire county council fought a major campaign, supported by the European Commission? As a result, treatment is...
Mr Alfred Hargreaves: ...the purposes of illustration I will deal with the position as it affects local authorities and the need for applying different standards to what might appear to be the same kind of effluent. The sewage works of the local authority which has been quoted so often today, Carlisle, deal with sewage which later becomes effluent by means of screens, sedimentation tanks, filters and so on, and...
Mr John Train: ...of Scotland which could be made suitable for housing if there were a proper water supply and proper drainage. The Commissioner for the Special Areas referred to an expenditure of £1,250,000 for sewage purification. For that class of work we do not require bricklayers or the skilled workmen of any other trade, but unskilled men who are now largely unemployed, and such men should be...
Lord Chidgey: ...needed to stop our rivers and seas being treated like an open sewer by the water companies. It is the case that the public must never again be faced with an annual figure of 400,000 releases of raw sewage into our rivers and seas. In that regard, I have three quick points to make. Will the Government confirm that they will, in due course, do three things? First, will they work with the...
Rebecca Pow: It is the responsibility of the water and sewerage companies to ensure they clean up any sewage following pollution incidents, including in coastal areas. This is enforced by the Environment Agency as part of its standard incident response procedures. We have not made an impact assessment specifically on the potential impact of sewage spillages on coastal businesses in England. However, our...
Kim Howells: ...of amendments is designed solely to facilitate the birth of the new plcs. As has been made clear, they cannot be born without amendments such as these because they will not be able to operate sewage works until they have signed the flotation prospectus. They cannot do that if they are persistently committing criminal offences. We are not conducting an abstract political debate. I am...
Mr Sam Foster: Several planning applications have been held pending a decision on the future development of the Kircubbin sewage treatment works. On 13 February 2001, Planning Service consulted Ards Borough Council with a preliminary opinion to approve two related applications. One of those related to the refurbishment of an existing building. Water Service had no objection to that development on the...
Lord de Mauley: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works has an Environmental Permit issued by the Environment Agency to discharge treated and storm effluent to the Thames Estuary at Isleworth. The discharge of storm effluent is permissible only when the capacity of onsite facilities for treatment and containment are exceeded. This includes a 77,000m³ storm tank. The permit does not specify a number of spills per...
Mr Gordon Oakes: ...Davyhulme which must be solved. Davyhulme is not, of course, the only source of smells in the area. Other treatment works and local industry are involved as well. It would be unrealistic to expect sewage treatment to be carried out without any whiff of a smell. Nevertheless, let me make it quite clear that I am on the side of the people living near Davyhulme in seeking by every possible...
Mr Denis Howell: I can answer that point but not, I think, to the satisfaction of the hon. Gentleman or myself. Powers of control are directed at the quality of the effluent. Powers of control over private sewage works do not extend to the safety of the premises from which the discharge is made. The effect of that, therefore, is that water authorities cannot deal with the safety of private sewage works, but I...
Ross Finnie: I have asked Dr Jon Hargreaves, Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is as follows: There are a number of different ways sewage is treated and many factors considered in an area before treatment occurs, but in general raw sewage goes through a settlement process to separate and remove any solids. In many areas the remaining water is treated using a biological process in...
Caroline Lucas: Over the course of 2020 and 2021, raw sewage was dumped in Britain’s rivers and seas more than 770,000 times. That is almost 6 million hours of pollution discharge. But, as we have heard, the pay of water company executives increased by a fifth, on average. Will the Minister force water companies to invest those profits into urgently upgrading the outdated sewage infrastructure—not ask...
Rhona Brankin: Without a consent from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, private sewage discharges, like any other discharge of "poisonous, noxious or polluting matter", would in all but exceptional cases – such as, in an emergency, to avoid danger to life and health - be illegal under the terms of the Control of Pollution Act 1974. It is for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to...
Jonathan R Shaw: My predecessor's reply to the hon. Member's similar question on 20 November 2003, Official Report, 1230W, estimated that a total of 40- 50 million tonnes of sewage sludge was deposited by water companies, and predecessor water authorities, in the north east Irish Sea/Liverpool Bay in the 30 years up to 31 December 1998. This practice was banned after that date. The following table sets out...
Jim Allister: ..., Bushmills, Dervock, Mosside and Stranocum. The Minister told me yesterday in answer that there are plans for nine new social housing units in Armoy. The problem is, Minister, that there is no sewage capacity left in Armoy. In all the other villages that I named, there are no plans for social housing, and none of them, apart from Bushmills, has sewage capacity. Where is the joined-up...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach: According to modelling conducted by Thames Water, the Lee Tunnel, in combination with sewage treatment works upgrades, would address approximately 16 million tonnes of untreated waste water currently discharged per year from Abbey Mills Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs). The Thames Tunnel, in conjunction with sewage treatment works upgrades, would enable approximately 18 million tonnes of...
Mr Ted Rowlands: The purpose of this new clause is to allow water authorities under the Bill to precept on the rates of local authorities to finance both sewerage and sewage disposal and water supplies. These are two separate issues although in a sense they are related. In the case of sewerage and sewage disposal, this has been until now a local authority responsibility and therefore the cost has been...
