Important Sewage Alert Feedback Needed
IMPORTANT – SEWAGE ALERT FEEDBACK.
We urgently need your feedback on the Sewage Alert Service. Since May the 15th we’ve sent out almost 30,000 free text messages warning you in real time, when sewage is in the sea. Defra and the water industry are preparing to evaluate how effective these warnings are. They are especially interested to know if these sewage alerts influenced how, where and when you used the sea. Take 2 minutes and follow this link to the survey. Your feedback is vital in securing even more beaches for 2012 and beyond! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QT8HD93
THANKS for your support!
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The text alerts that I receive for sewage discharges, are of vital importance.
It has also helped me to realise that the time-span for these sewage discharges can vary enormously, and to be quite frank, I don’t think that I would wish to use a beach that had been subject to a CSO, until a good 24 hrs after the incident had occurred.
The text alert facility is a ‘must-have’ for one and all.
The text alerts that I receive for sewage discharges, are of vital importance. It has also helped me to realise that the time-span for these sewage discharges can vary enormously.
This is a very important service that helps us and must go on!
this is such a vital service, not just for me, but this info i pass onto my friends. i also like the fact i know what the water companies are upto and this transparency exposes how they really should do more to protect the sea. alot more…
Maybe the director of defra should go have a swim when the sewage is beinf pumped out.!
Whilst in the Gower last weekend I was horrified at the quantity of sewage washing up on the beach, and whilst these text services are invaluable to those who are in the know surely we can do better for the 30 or so children I saw surfing and playing in the S*%T.
Given the number of local organisations and surf shops now operating around our coast line. Surely an on beach warning is a distinct possibility, even just a flag and a little publicity! informtion could then offer an interactive link to a service that told people good and bad beaches locally to safely avoid the CSO. I am sure MSW could be encouraged to incorporate such a service into their website!
I surf and swim in the sea on a regular basis. It worries me that sewage discarge washed up on the beach is then regarded as no longer a problem. I watched children on the beach making sand castles useing cotton bud sticks as flagpoles and tampon applicators as cannon on the battlements. This material has been deposited in a line all down the beach and children routinely forrage for sandcastle decorations in it blissfully unaware ( as it seems are thier parents) that they are picking up material formerly deposited in the toilet . Who knows what other unseen contaminants await them. There should be free antiseptic showers and hand wash stations provided if this public recreational resource is also going to become a regular dump for privateley opperated waste disposal organisations. Where are the Health and Safety inspectorate when you need them. I cant praise the SAS enough for trying to pour scorn on this practice. If you go down to your beach today I hope you or your kids dont get a big surprise.
I feel this is a really powerful tool and every effort should be made to see it out across the whole country and not just where the popular surfing/bathing beaches are.
I have no first hand experience of using this as i surf in areas that are not yet covered by the alerts but i do have first hand experience of surfing in raw sewerage and it’s not one i would want to do again.
Not only is it a tool to prevent us coming into contact with the sewerage but it also highlights the amount of times the water companies are discharging to the masses.