Flushable wipes, 'stench and filth' and 'human sewage': Fury over river pollution in Greater Manchester borough
Trafford councillors furious over raw discharges into the River Mersey are calling on the government to take action and ensure that polluters "pay."
They also want ‘meaningful provision for the monitoring of water quality, a meaningful strategy published with targets for the reduction of sewage discharges and financial penalties for breaches'.The River Mersey flows through the Longford ward of councillor Sarah Haughey. She told the meeting: “In Stretford and Urmston last year there were 24 sites polluted, 1,095 sewage dumps over a period of time amounting to 8.62 months.
Proposing the motion Coun Barry Winstanley said: “Our quality of life is being treated with utter contempt. It’s being dumped on with raw human sewage on an industrial scale. Our residents are rightly angry.”“Since 2010, environmental protection funding has dropped by 80 per cent and enforcement by 40pc. Unsurprisingly, prosecutions fell from almost 800 in 2007/8 and just 17 in 2021,” he said.
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