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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:34:10 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39352755Thames Water has been fined a record £20m after pumping nearly 1.5 billion litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames.
The company admitted water pollution and other offences at sewage facilities in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:38:06 GMT
Makes a sea toilet look a mere drop in the water.
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Post by aquarat on Mar 22, 2017 14:02:35 GMT
Mmmm, I heard this too, where does the dosh get siphoned off to? Treasury I'm guessing
Sacked a load of middle management 'shooting the troops to save the generals'
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 14:11:22 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39352755Thames Water has been fined a record £20m after pumping nearly 1.5 billion litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames.
The company admitted water pollution and other offences at sewage facilities in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Funny...I don't remember the BBC reporting this 2-3 years ago. Surely it wasn't hushed up?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 14:15:28 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39352755Thames Water has been fined a record £20m after pumping nearly 1.5 billion litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames.
The company admitted water pollution and other offences at sewage facilities in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Funny...I don't remember the BBC reporting this 2-3 years ago. Surely it wasn't hushed up? Normally on the BBC news web site with a story like this there would be links back to reports of the original incident. There doesn't appear to any om this one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 14:24:08 GMT
Funny...I don't remember the BBC reporting this 2-3 years ago. Surely it wasn't hushed up? Normally on the BBC news web site with a story like this there would be links back to reports of the original incident. There doesn't appear to any om this one. What a surprise! The water rates payer shouldn't have to cough up for the fine, the investors should. Also that money should go to everyone who was inconvenienced by the spill. Most importantly, someone should go to jail for a spell. ...but of course, we know what will actually happen ..
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Post by bodger on Mar 22, 2017 14:51:04 GMT
BBC reports that the shareholders WILL pay, i.e. the value of the company will be reduced or the dividends reduced. The last payout was £82 million on an operating profit of £0.75BILLION so this fine is hardly going to hurt much.
I don't recall any problems when I was cruising these parts of the Thames in 2013 and 2014, or any gossip about it. Was it associated with the flooding? I believe sewage treatment systems rely on some of the storm plus foul drainage flow bypassing the works when the flow is too great to manage.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 22, 2017 15:03:36 GMT
20 million quid is pathetically pathetic. Why not 5 Pounds per litre? That would come to 7.5 billion Pounds.
Also I think 10 large buckets should be filled with diarrhoea, perhaps courtesy of some Wetherspoons alcoholics, and ten of the Thames Water top management have their heads pushed down into those buckets until there are no more bubbles.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 15:10:09 GMT
I wonder if the billions of litres was in fact human waste or if most of it was runoff after heavy rain.
News outlets will say "sewage" to sound extreme as most people think "shit" but I think it is basically untreated water which was released. Its not a load of faeces floating about.
Seems the offending sites were the one upstream of Bourne end and one at Didcot.
Not that it makes it ok but it might not have been a particularly noticeable event for boaters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 15:22:15 GMT
I wonder if the billions of litres was in fact human waste or if most of it was runoff after heavy rain. News outlets will say "sewage" to sound extreme as most people think "shit" but I think it is basically untreated water which was released. Its not a load of faeces floating about. Seems the offending sites were the one upstream of Bourne end and one at Didcot. Not that it makes it ok but it might not have been a particularly noticeable event for boaters. I think some boaters may have noticed....
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 22, 2017 15:25:31 GMT
Well, I've got mine ready:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 15:29:04 GMT
I wonder if the billions of litres was in fact human waste or if most of it was runoff after heavy rain. News outlets will say "sewage" to sound extreme as most people think "shit" but I think it is basically untreated water which was released. Its not a load of faeces floating about. Seems the offending sites were the one upstream of Bourne end and one at Didcot. Not that it makes it ok but it might not have been a particularly noticeable event for boaters. I think some boaters may have noticed.... Thats not ideal ! But I think it is probably foam as described not actually faeces although it does look a bit like the latter. That mooring is also very close (a few hundred metres) to the outlet and on the same side of the river.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 15:38:12 GMT
I've seen large amounts of complete human turds floating down a river but that was in Puerto de Santa Maria in Spain in 1992. Its much more offensive than a bit of foam.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 22, 2017 15:42:57 GMT
I'm not sure if Thames Water can be blamed for this one, but the Houses of Parliament, next to the River Thames, is full of turds.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 16:06:51 GMT
I wonder if the billions of litres was in fact human waste or if most of it was runoff after heavy rain. News outlets will say "sewage" to sound extreme as most people think "shit" but I think it is basically untreated water which was released. Its not a load of faeces floating about. Seems the offending sites were the one upstream of Bourne end and one at Didcot. Not that it makes it ok but it might not have been a particularly noticeable event for boaters. I think some boaters may have noticed.... The boats will be OK as long as they used antifoul....
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