While Southern Water were receiving customers at the Stade Hall on Thursday 12 October, and trying to mollify them, protesters were plentiful outside it. They had a lot to complain about, including untreated sewage, lack of answers, health hazards, endangered pets, and a proposed 44% increase in their water bill (arguably for what they had already paid for). Bernard McGinley reports and took the photos.
As anger mounts against the privatised water companies over the widespread pollution of our sea and rivers, Felicity Laurence gives an update on the rapidly moving series of events that are fuelling a boycott of water companies both in Hastings and across the country, and explains why she has decided to join in.
Are you fed up with the continuing and calamitous contamination of all of our waters around Hastings? -from Alexandra Park to our beautiful ocean? Come and find out what boycotters of water companies have been doing! Join the Zoom meeting on Tuesday 27 June at 8pm.
Many hundreds of people turned up to St Leonards beach on Friday 26th to protest against the notoriously poor record of Southern Water in looking after local water. A year after the pollution in Bulverhythe, raw sewage was being pumped into the sea at Seaford, and Bexhill beach was closed. Bernard McGinley was at the demonstration and took the photos.
Faced with the dumping of raw sewage in the sea by Southern Water, and the Environment Agency’s inadequate testing regime, Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action have launched a crowdfunder to pay for independent tests in the winter months. HOT’s Chris Connelley dips his toe into murky waters.
Seven weeks after the sewage leak at Bulverhythe beach occurred, there is still no plan for cleaning the contaminated area, nor are Southern Water and Natural England, which has to approve any plan, showing any urgency in tackling the matter. The question of compensation for affected beach hut owners has yet to be decided. Nick Terdre reports.
Anthony Kimber PhD, the Chair of Rye Emergency Action Community Team (REACT), reminds us that what we flush down the toilet has a nasty habit of reappearing on our beaches.
Everyone at Strandliners sends best wishes and good health to all at these strange and uncertain times. They are in the process of creating some new methods of sharing news, activities and support for all, including those who may not be able to access the outdoors as usual. Andy Dinsdale writes.
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