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To: George Eustace, NT, Local Goverment, UU, NWW
Save Lake Windermere!
It is unacceptable that profit has been placed higher up the priority ladder than water purity and wildlife welfare and public health, amenity and safety.
The Lake District is a National Park. We eroneously believe that it has maximum protection from pollution. We erroneously believe that Government, both local and national strictly enshrine this protection.
We are led to believe by water and sewage treatment undertakers that every effort is made to reduce and minimise untreated sewage outfall into watercourses, lakes, rivers and the sea.
To a layperson it appears that storm/flash flood occurences are viewed as an opportunity to reduce sewage treatment costs for profit, that or a woeful underprovision of impounding, treatment/neutralising capacity.
Please contact your local water and sewage treatment undertaker yet again..(there is nothing new in this) to complain in the strongest terms that we will not accept their wilful, damaging discharge of human waste into both our drinking water supply- Some rivers, like the Dee of Clwyd/Cheshire- are a drinking water resource and our public leisure amenity lakes such as Windermere.
Why is this important?
We will not accept the wanton destruction of such precious habitats and DEMAND, with immediate Government intervention that the despoiling of England's largest and most iconic inland body of water ceases with immediate effect.
The privatised companies responsible must quite simply invest in the capital projects and infrastructure required to manage our waste properly and responsibly. This is what we pay them to do. It ought to be deemed some kind of breach of contract!
If they cannot they should be fined for the damage they are responsible for and their industry taken back into public hands as a matter of urgency.
The Government should NOT legally allow any percentages of untreated sewage release. This merely encourages pollution!..these 'allowances' are often maximised as I understand it. This is foreseeable under the Capitalist model.
I am no expert in matters of water and sewage treatment but from my knowledge of what happened with cholera in Victorian London and Basiljet's ingenious solutions (unsurprisingly relied upon to this day) swift, effective action can be taken. Yes its expensive but. This problem CAN be solved.
Too late for much of the wildlife that has recently been killed in this rich soup of raw sewage, nitrate run off, hormones and unabsorbed antidepressant and other medication.
Is a shareholders dividend worth more than the beauty of a lake which symbolises bucolic English pastoral magnificence like no other.
Immortalised by Wordsworth, Ruskington, Beatrix Potter and a myriad of our finest landscape painters, photographers and Writers, are we to give it up so easily?
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