Water companies have installed monitors which don't work 90 per cent of the time, or not fitted any, according to analysis of Environment Agency data
has also not installed a monitor at Long Rock, Cornwall and Southern Water have not placed one at Littlehampton, Sussex – despite a sewerage overflow being installed – or at Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire.
Analysis also found Southern Water’s sewage monitor in Seaford, Sussex is only working a third of the time, and water companies have generally installed monitors which don’t work 90 per cent of the time, or not fitted any. Tim Farron, a spokesperson for the party and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, said: “These water companies could be guilty of gross negligence by failing to install sewage monitors.“Sussex has been devastated in recent days by disgraceful sewage dumps because of Southern Water. The CEO of Southern Water should go to Seaford to check on this sewage monitor immediately. The public needs to know how safe, if at all, popular beaches are for swimming.
Analysis of sewage discharges not measured due to faulty monitors or no monitors being installed in bathing and non-bathing areas, found
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