We are calling on Thames Water to provide clear explanations for sewer overflows and to reveal its plans for solving them.
Too much rain causes the sewer to discharge. The best option is to create lots of small gardens to stop the rain overwhelming the network. This will help reverse all the green spaces that have been paved over  across London (22 times the size of Hyde Park).
The Government and Thames Water say they want to prioritise ‘nature based solutions’. The Government made them develop Action Plans for all their sewer overflows. Of the solutions proposed for the worst sewers just one will use green infrastructure rather than concrete storage tanks.
We need to know that the water company has developed a green option, as it claimed it would.
Sewer overflows in Kenton Brook

Dear Thames Water,

As you will know the Honeypot Lane sewer overflow (CANM.0664) discharged to the Kenton Brook 39 times in 2023, 28 times in 2022, 40 in 2021 and 63 times in 2020. Kenton Brook flows into Queensbury Park and its wetlands, whereby London Waterkeeper has observed large amounts of sewage pollution.

Citing the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 I would like to request the following information:

1) What did are the reasons for the high number of discharges? 2) Did you complete an aesthetics Impact Assessment score for the overflow; an Invertebrate impact score for the overflow; a water quality impact score for the overflow? If so could you send them to me? 3) Did you develop a comprehensive green infrastructure solution to reduce the amount of rain entering the sewer network (as stated in your draft Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan and the Storm Overflow Assessment Framework)? 4) The Government required you to complete an Action Plan for all overflows, could you send me the full Plan for this overflow?

The above information will help us understand how sewer overflows are being managed in the Kenton Brook as is flows through Queensbury Recreation Ground. Transparency is fundamental to this process.  Electronic answers to the above questions are fine.

Yours faithfully,

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