The sewage pollution campaign is now mainstream and awareness of what’s been happening is growing all the time.
That England’s largest lake, Windermere is used to dump raw human sewage by United Utilities is symbolic of the treatment of the country by the Tory governmental they’ve taken our money in £billions of dividend payments instead of investing it to make the country better.
With that abuse is the risk to jobs and livelihoods for the huge tourist industry based around it and other lakes in the Lake District. The same is true of our shores at Blackpool and Fleetwood too.
But what draw me to this outrage was closer to home when it became clear that brooks, rivers and even open spaces in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton were routinely being used to dump raw human sewage directly from peoples homes, when bill payers were paying more and more in good faith to have it treated.
For instance in Royton, a single site near Elk Mill had 40 discharges running for over 354 hours in 2022. Foxdenton Lane, shown in the photo, had 76 discharges running for over 103 hours.
It’s long overdue that time was called on the Wild West of the water industry and the public interest (who pay for it all) was put before shareholders.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 