Thames Water

Down the Sewers

September 23, 2011

Thames Water took a group of journalists and politicians down the sewers at Hammersmith Pumping Station last week – coals to Newcastle you might think.  They wanted to persuade us that the Thames Tunnel was not product of folie de grandeur as H&F Council’s propaganda proclaims but the best if not only way of stopping [...]

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Local Resident Challenges Council over Thames Tunnel

September 16, 2011

A Hammersmith resident has written a blistering letter to the Council Leader over his opposition to the Thames Tunnel, pointing out that thousands of local people have to put up with an open sewer running past their homes. She has given me permission to reproduce her letter here, and has asked me not to give [...]

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Facts about the “SuperSewer”

September 14, 2010

The Victorian Solution:  one of the overflow outlets which currently discharge raw sewage into the Thames. There are three of these in Hammersmith alone.  The new “Super Sewer” will replace these and take away sewage without letting it into the river. Andy’s article for the Fulham Chronicle: Last week the Conservative environment minister gave the [...]

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“Vote Shaun, Get Sewage”

December 3, 2009
Bailey out of his depth in sewage

If you speak to anyone who lives, works near or occasionally strolls by the Thames, they will tell you that the state of the river is disgusting. For decades now sewage has been flowing into the Thames unabated with nowhere else to go, polluting Britain’s greatest river. In November alone, 9.2 million tonnes of sewage [...]

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Andy Slaughter’s eNews #59

September 25, 2009

Content Goldhawk Industrial Estate Shepherds Bush library opens Playing fields New Post Office needed New Sure Start Sipsmith Jack Tizard School Eid Mubarak Intensive Farming Thames Water 266 Health service investment Mike and Vera A free press and a level playing field

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Super Sewer – I smell a rat

September 22, 2008
Super Sewer - I smell a rat

Who wants the entry to a giant sewer in Furnival Gardens? Not surprisingly, no one does, though you wouldn’t realise that from the noisy and expensive (your money of course) campaign being waged by Hammersmith & Fulham council. So what is going on? Many thousands of homes in the borough have been flooded with sewage [...]

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