Sewage Discharge Notification

From TW today, at last

In December:

1st - Western 98,850
Lots Rd 9,000

11th Western 51,600
Lots Rd 19,980

12th Western 84,000
Lots Rd 28,850
Hammersmith 60,000

13th Mogden 211,000

15th Western 50,550

16th Mogden 62,000
Hammersmith 15,000
Lots Rd 9,000

17th Mogden 11,000

18th Mogden 1,000

Quote :

rower.notification@thameswater.co.uk sent it to me on Dec 21, 2011, 11:31 AM

Rower notification from Thames Water: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way. Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and consented.

Regards
Thames Water

we have had no rain for two days , so where is this storm water coming from ? are they dumping in the river just because they can ? sounds more like it !!

Mate it threw it down in Surbiton last night, proper wet

Yep, and Hammersmith,
Have noticed a lot of activity on the Thames regarding EA and PLA vessels recently, going up and down as if they are keeping an eye out for something, very strange.

Merry Xmas from Thames Water.....

19:48

Rower notification from Thames Water: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way. Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and consented.

Regards
Thames Water

And another one, a previously unseen new notification type especially for Christmas:
From: Rower.Notification@thameswater.co.uk
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:37:13 +0000
Subject: Rower Notification Gascoigne Road SPS

Quote :

Please be aware that due to a fault this morning at our Gascoigne road waste pumping Station, Barking IG11, we discharged some waste water into the Barking Creek, leading into the river Thames adjacent to Beckton STW. More intermittent discharges are possible over the next 24 hours whilst we carry out emergency repairs at the pumping station.

Good that they notified

And another, no rain though ?

16:41

Rower notification from Thames Water: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging
heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated
wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way.
Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this
happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is
Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that
after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to
go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and
consented.

Regards
Thames Water
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Happy New Year from Thames Water

rower.notification@thameswater.co.uk sent it to me on Jan 1, 2012, 3:39 PM

Rower notification from Thames Water: Hammersmith Pumping Station (PS)


Following the recent rainfall, Hammersmith PS has in the last hour discharged untreated storm sewage into the River Thames, due to lack of capacity in the existing sewer network.

We are working hard to develop the Thames Tunnel to address the unacceptable volume and frequency of these discharges.

The proposed tunnel would capture flows from the 34 most polluting 'combined sewer overflows' (CSOs) discharging to the river, including Hammersmith PS, and transfer the sewage to our works at Beckton in east London for treatment.

For more information view www.thamestunnelconsultation.co.uk

Regards
Thames Water

Thanks for that Ed,
I really dont know why they bother anymore, they have ruined this stretch, no one will fish around here in the foreseeable future.
There is a rumour going around that residents on the Barnes side are going to put up warning signs for dog owners.
The river on that side between Hammersmith bridge and the Harrods building floods badly and after a high tide the residue left behind would make anyone think twice about taking Fido out for walkies.
cheers
james

Unsurprisingly, one from Mogden now:

rower.notification@thameswater.co.uk sent it to me on Jan 1, 2012, 4:28 PM

Rower notification from Thames Water: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way. Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and consented.

Regards
Thames Water

Its funny, Hammersmith churns out Storm Sewage, Mogden churns out Storm Water, but there is never any mention of the one under the Furneval gardens, 100 yards upstream of Hammersmith Bridge, which i presume is the Western outlet and, i think, is the main culprit for all the muck on the foreshore.

The Hammersmith pumping station one chucks out so much and so fast (up to 24 tonnes per second) that they had to hide the outlets in the middle of the river where they can't be seen, if they flowed down the shore it would cause too much erosion, so I was told.
(The Mogden ones are similar except to one side of the main flow, alongside Isleworth Ait.)

rower.notification@thameswater.co.uk sent it to me on Jan 2, 2012, 12:12 PM

Rower notification from Thames Water: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way. Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and consented.

Regards
Thames Water

Surprise, Surprise, no discharge notification from our friends at Thames Water.
At Eleven thirty this morning London endured a monsoon style downpour, at that time, i was standing on the concourse at Waterloo station and was surrounded by people with their brolly,s up, i kid you not, the rain was that heavy it was coming through the roof.
I was told later that West London had suffered the same downpour.

No rain-Discharge
Monsoon-Nothing.

Priceless

Bizarre mate, monsoon in Surby this afternoon

13:49 today...

Rower notification from Thames Water:  Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way. Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and consented.

Regards
Thames Water
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Blimey!
Maybe they all had an extra day off yesterday.
The more i read these notifications from Thames Water
the more i hear that well known football chant in the back of my head,
"You dont know what your doing"

4 days in to the new year and TW have issued 4 SDN's.

Let's hope they don't keep to that rate throughout the year.

Rower Notification - Mogden
rower.notification@thameswater.co.uk sent it to me on Jan 5, 2012, 12:40 PM

Quote :

Rower notification from Thames Water: Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW)

Within the next hour, Mogden Sewage Treatment Works will be discharging heavily diluted storm water into the River Thames.

Storm water is screened, settled in tanks and mixed with fully treated wastewater before it reaches the river.

We regret the necessity to discharge partly treated effluent in this way. Improvements are already under way at Mogden to reduce the chance of this happening in the future.

Until this essential work is done, London's sewer network - which is Victorian - and other facilities will remain overstretched. This means that after heavy rain there is simply nowhere else for excess storm sewage to go, which is why these discharges, though regrettable, are legal and consented.

Regards
Thames Water

5th SDN in 5 days

(to save you counting)

Is there anybody out there, in parts of London other than those areas covered by Hammersmith and Mogden, who receives sewage disharge notifications?
cheers
James

No mate

The Modgen one was set up in Jan 2010 after a meeting with rowers, the TAC and Thames Water, very early days for us.

The Hammersmith one came last year, just for us.

Very few of the CSO's are monitored, so the data is patchy at best

You can get the notifications by signing up, will find the link for ya

This one mate

http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/3644_9989.htm

cheers Dave