Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
RAW sewage from Park Road Crouch End, surfaces in Lordship Rec; council complacency
LONDON Centric reports today that a building in Crouch End is (unwittingly) sending untreated raw sewage into London's river system.
On this occasion, Thames Water is not to blame. Responsibility may lie with "dodgy builders and DIY plumbers".
The filth "surfaces in a local Tottenham Park, filled with sewage and wet wipes". The Moselle Brook flows from west to east through the Lordship Recreation Ground, which is the park affected.
Haringey Council is reported to have declined to identify the building in Park Road. This suggests that council officers have undertaken investigation in order to narrow down the source to a single road in the Borough.
London Centric's full story.
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Tags for Forum Posts: london centric, lordship recreation ground, misconnected drains, moselle, park road, sewage, wet wipes
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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THANKS Hugh; perhaps between HoL and London Centric, Haringey Council may give this even greater priority.
The Mayor of London says he wants to clean up London's rivers and the Health Secretary says he's keen on preventative measures.
Given that this is a matter of public health and the environment, I would not be surprised—in the run up to the May election—if it were picked up by the local Green Party as an issue to campaign on.
The council is likely to remain satisfied with their PR emission referencing Thames Water, with which "we work alongside".
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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It’s an even greater problem than the numbers suggest. These are just detected misconnections. A glimpse at Google Earth shows just how many beds in sheds there are in London. Many will have been constructed without permission and as they are hidden behind terraces go undetected. Below is a small section of a single street in west London as an example.
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Permalink Reply by neil
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How can this be reported ? I doubt Haringey will pay any attention unless there's money involved .
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The divided terraced house next to me, kitchen waste is plumbed into the rain water drain. It floods from time to time in my front garden. I am hoping it's the the sh*t pipe was well.
The Freeholder bedsits were used by Haringey to house crack users.
The upstairs was bedrooms with shared bathroom and kitchen then converted to bedsits. There is no sound insulation between the ground floor leasehold flat and the bedsits. The builders put holes in the ceiling downstairs that have still not been repaired.
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That's a good point. Where are the Greens in Harringay ? I thought they were polling well ?
Given the traffic farce, cycling disaster lane situation (or lack of it) they should be out and about campaigning ?
Whether any of them will make effective councillors is another matter...
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If the picture of Haringey Greens in your link is anything to go by I doubt they are interested in environmental issues. Two of them are wearing the kefiyeh or hipster swastika. That suggests their 'green' is more to do with Islamist affiliations than environmental ones.
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No Christmas tree in the picture either - shocking.
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Oh, I see
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I was visited last year by Thames Water, who made an appointment out of the blue, as they were trying to trace the source of one such misconnection (not us, thankfully). The guys who visited said they were working their way across the area — without specifying how large it was — so somebody (at Thames Water?) presumably identifed the problem in order to initiate the search.
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