Northumbian Water Sewerage treatment?

[Druncan]

Hi,

Please follow the link to SAS and sign the petition to stop NW switching off UV treatment of Sewerage through the winter to save money:mad:
http://www.sas.org.uk/pr/uv_petition_nov_2006.asp

Does this happen anywhere else in the country????

[Adrian Kelland]

Hi,

Please follow the link to SAS and sign the petition to stop NW switching off UV treatment of Sewerage through the winter to save money:mad:
http://www.sas.org.uk/pr/uv_petition_nov_2006.asp

Does this happen anywhere else in the country????
Not that I've heard (I'm in a related industry), but that does not mean it or similar actions do not happen.

Don't forget this is about saving money which results in saving power too. While it is easy to go on about the profits these companies make, most of those profits support our pension schemes and endowments etc. And the customer really does not want to pay for a 'pure' effluent. What are your priorities for where the limited funding should go? Keep the UV on or prevent some sewage flooding for a property or two?

If the discharged effluent meets the current quality legal requirement while the UV is shut off, then perhaps it is approprite. It may be that the UV deals with an additional load resulting from higher bacterial growth in the warmer season. Someone walking along a beach is probably more at risk from the waste from a baby without a polio innoculation than from effluent discharged to sea.

Now if customers stopped flushing nappies and sanitary towels down the toilet, or pouring oil and fat down the sink (illegal by the way), then the money saved by not having to clear them might be available for continued UV operation. Bag it and bin it - don't flush it.

Unfortunately SAS have introduced leakage issues into the arguement. Now there is a really hard problem to solve...

As always a question of cost, priority and disappointment.

Adrian