The plans will mean water companies can still release untreated sewage including faeces, tampons, wet wipes, viruses and chemicals into most conservation areas
Members of the public and protesters from Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action, protest against raw sewage release incidents on the beach in St Leonards, Sussex. Picture date: Friday August 26, 2022.The new crackdown on sewage spills fails to protect the majority of England's coastline, the Marine Conservation Society is arguing, as it takes legal action against the government's plan.
This puts public health and nature at risk, the charity and its co-claimants the Good Law Project say. There are an estimated 1,600 storm overflows on England's coast and 600 of them will never be included in the strategy,"which means they're going to be able to completely legally continue to dump untold amounts of sewage into the into the sea," MCS chief Sandy Luk said.
"People end up in hospital when they swim in sewage... Sewage pollution is impacting marine life from seagrass to seabirds," she said.
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