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08.10.09 - Campaigns, Climate Chaos, CSO's, Diffuse Pollution, Environmental Courts, Environmental Threats, Marine Litter, Protect Our Waves, Protecting Your Health, Sewage and Sickness, Signage, Threats To Watersports

SAS Pleased As European Commission Takes UK To European Court Of Justice Over CSOs

SAS are pleased to hear the European Commission (EC) has decided to take the United Kingdom to the European Court of Justice over non-compliance with EU environment legislation. SAS has spent the summer highlighting the inadequacies of the UK's sewerage system, specifically with Combine Sewage and Stormwater Overflow drains (CSOs), culminating in the hard-hitting Panorama programme "Britain's Dirty Beaches". The EC is concerned that the urban waste water collecting systems and treatment facilities in London and Whitburn in North East England and have deemed them "inadequate and a threat to human health." SAS have highlighted time and again concerns over the... Read more