People have been left outraged
Anglers have been left outraged after sewage was reportedly dumped into the River Irwell on the first day of fishing season.
“It was the opening day of the fishing season yesterday ,” he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service. “A lot of anglers were on the river from about 5am.“It started to rain at 10am for about four or five minutes then all of a sudden that s*** came out the pipe. Everyone just packed up and went home. It stinks, you can’t enjoy the river like that.”
Prof Woodward’s previous research has suggested that ‘the build-up of microplastics was directly linked to untreated sewage discharges outside periods of exceptional rainfall’. In the UK, water companies are permitted to release untreated sewage into rivers to avoid flooding properties during heavy rainfall — known as spills.
Its investigation also included a map of pipes which flow into rivers, with one in the location described by Mike found to have spilled 104 times in 2023, for the equivalent of 29 days. The LDRS has been unable to confirm if the pipe in the video is the one in the BBC data.
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