This isn't really an "issue", but you did say "let us know how you get on" down here in Cornwall. Please let me know if there's a more appropriate place for this sort of thing.
I've sorted out my 2020/21 data source issues, and I am now eagerly awaiting the data for 2022. When does it usually emerge?
Since we last spoke I've appeared on ITV, albeit regarding "industrial" pollution of rivers. I've also appeared on the BBC, regarding the ongoing drought in Kernow.
I've had numerous discussions with @SWWHelp on Twitter, but they still haven't answered the £64 billion question:
"How much poop does the Environment Agency permit SWW to flush into the ocean?"
I've also (a bit belatedly) received a response from SWW to an EIR request:
"Storm overflows (SO) are built into the sewer network system so that at times of high network pressure, when flows are increased by heavy rainfall for example, they can take excess volumes of water out of the system, discharging flows to a river or stream. This ensures homes and businesses are not flooded. SOs were built as part of the system and we have permits from the Environment Agency (EA) to operate them, SO releases are not deemed pollutions , they are designed to spill when flows are increased.
If a SO spill is categorised as a ‘wastewater pollution’ incident by the EA, it is because it has operated outside its permit...
A SWW Beachlive alert is generated at bathing water site level, not SWW SO level. An alert is triggered when an overflow event occurs which could temporarily affect bathing water quality, this is when an overflow/s operates for more than a specified duration in a rolling 12-hour period.
The specified duration at each bathing water is based upon EA’s assessments. They may differ at each bathing water due to the position, length and diameter of the overflows and other local factors such as hydrodynamics. We issue Beachlive alerts 24/7/265"
There are other EIRs from your truly in the SWW queue, albeit more to do with the supply side at the moment.
Also Feargal "retweeted" my Cornish alter ego yesterday:
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1 year ago
This isn't really an "issue", but you did say "let us know how you get on" down here in Cornwall. Please let me know if there's a more appropriate place for this sort of thing.
I've sorted out my 2020/21 data source issues, and I am now eagerly awaiting the data for 2022. When does it usually emerge?
Since we last spoke I've appeared on ITV, albeit regarding "industrial" pollution of rivers. I've also appeared on the BBC, regarding the ongoing drought in Kernow.
I've had numerous discussions with @SWWHelp on Twitter, but they still haven't answered the £64 billion question:
https://twitter.com/DavidstowInfo/status/1634238007652827209
"How much poop does the Environment Agency permit SWW to flush into the ocean?"
I've also (a bit belatedly) received a response from SWW to an EIR request:
"Storm overflows (SO) are built into the sewer network system so that at times of high network pressure, when flows are increased by heavy rainfall for example, they can take excess volumes of water out of the system, discharging flows to a river or stream. This ensures homes and businesses are not flooded. SOs were built as part of the system and we have permits from the Environment Agency (EA) to operate them, SO releases are not deemed pollutions , they are designed to spill when flows are increased.
If a SO spill is categorised as a ‘wastewater pollution’ incident by the EA, it is because it has operated outside its permit...
A SWW Beachlive alert is generated at bathing water site level, not SWW SO level. An alert is triggered when an overflow event occurs which could temporarily affect bathing water quality, this is when an overflow/s operates for more than a specified duration in a rolling 12-hour period.
The specified duration at each bathing water is based upon EA’s assessments. They may differ at each bathing water due to the position, length and diameter of the overflows and other local factors such as hydrodynamics. We issue Beachlive alerts 24/7/265"
There are other EIRs from your truly in the SWW queue, albeit more to do with the supply side at the moment.
Also Feargal "retweeted" my Cornish alter ego yesterday:
https://twitter.com/DavidstowInfo/status/1634321040791728128
15K views and counting.
Jim