Environment Agency Funding

[Heartland]

The 630 odd miles of Environment Agency waterways receives a grant from the Government which is revised each year. That this grant is not sufficient is a matter of concern. In 2019 hopes of the CRT taking over the EA navigations ended. So what will happen to navigations such as the Thames in future?

[GUMPY]

God help us if cart get their hands on the rivers😱

I for one will sell up.

[Steilsteven]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

The 630 odd miles of Environment Agency waterways receives a grant from the Government which is revised each year. That this grant is not sufficient is a matter of concern. In 2019 hopes of the CRT taking over the EA navigations ended. So what will happen to navigations such as the Thames in future?

No idea.

 

Keith

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

The 630 odd miles of Environment Agency waterways receives a grant from the Government which is revised each year. That this grant is not sufficient is a matter of concern. In 2019 hopes of the CRT taking over the EA navigations ended. So what will happen to navigations such as the Thames in future?

 

 

The last thing that C&RT needs is another waterway that costs more to maintain than the income it brings in (licences, grants, extraction licence, drainage licence etc etc)

 

Maybe the EA will just forget the navigation aspect and the rivers will just become open sewers

 

 

 

More than two billion litres of raw sewage were dumped in the River Thames over two days, a report has found.

 

During the whole of 2020, 3.5 billion litres of untreated sewage entered the Thames from Mogden - seven times as much as was dumped in 2016.

 

Water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, according to new figures published by the Environment Agency.

Untreated effluent, including human waste, wet wipes and condoms, was released into waterways for more than three million hours last year.

 

[Higgs]

After decades of privatisation and economics that favour the market, nothing can be done properly anymore. Maybe we should have these overflows fed into the living rooms of the shareholders. 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 21, 2023 by Higgs

[Midnight]

5 hours ago, Heartland said:

The 630 odd miles of Environment Agency waterways receives a grant from the Government which is revised each year. That this grant is not sufficient is a matter of concern. In 2019 hopes of the CRT taking over the EA navigations ended. So what will happen to navigations such as the Thames in future?

Lucky escape there