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BBC News
29-04-2025
- Science
- BBC News
River Teme to be cleaned from £20m Ludlow ozone gas project
A water firm is using technology worth £20m for the first time in the UK to pump ozone gas into a river to reduce Trent Water is using the process on waste water to clean up the River Teme in Ludlow, aims to reduce bacteria, micro pollutants and medications in the water, along with viruses by using the ozone plant on the river.A stretch of the river was granted bathing water status last year, but the water quality was later designated as poor because of high E. coli levels from sewage and agricultural run-off during floods. Severn Trent Water said while their current process ensures pollutants are reduced, it does not take out all the bacteria and pharmaceutical chemicals. While the technology has been used on drinking water before, this will be the first time it has been used on waste ozone gas will be used at the end of sewage treatments before water is returned to the river to provide an "enhanced" process, Severn Trent said. Campaigners have welcomed the steps taken to reduce pollution in the river, including open water swimmer Alison described the River Teme's current water quality as "really good" along with most of Shropshire's other rivers while the weather stayed she said that two or three areas of the river were marked as poor because of high levels of E Coli, which affected the whole river's rating. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
10-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Anger over Severn Trent's plans for River Onny
More than 200 people packed into Bishop's Castle Community College, to hear more about controversial plans to build a pipeline to move waste Trent Water wants to build the four-mile pipe to take treated sewage from its plant in Bishop's Castle and discharge it into the River the water enters the Snakescroft Brook, which runs into the River Kemp and in turn the River meeting, organised by Severn Trent, had to be moved to a larger venue as so many people wanted to attend. The event included a presentation by Natural England, but local campaigner Andy Boak said he was disappointed the Environment Agency and Shropshire Council were not present. Severn Trent is required to upgrade the treatment works in Bishop's Castle to improve the quality of Snakescroft Brook, which is currently failing to achieve good status under the Water Framework Clun is protected by law as it is a conservation area, but the Onny does not have the same status. Local anglers and conservationists, however, say the Onny is home to wildlife including otters, and kingfishers and a vital breeding ground for brown trout, grayling and Atlantic salmon.A petition against the pipeline has so far attracted 8,500 signatures. Mayor of Ludlow Beverley Waite has said she is concerned about the impact on the Onny, which flows into the River Teme. "We have bathing status on the Teme, plus salmon and otters," she said."We can't allow this to happen to the Onny. We've got to protect the rivers because if we don't do it, who's going to do it?"Local business owner Bamber, who runs a framing business in the town, said he would rather see money spent on improving the existing infrastructure. "Surely [Severn Trent] can fix the problem at the sewage works so you don't need to put any water into the Onny or the Kemp?" he said."The Onny is beautifully pristine and now they're talking about messing it up." The water company has previously said that by transferring fully treated waste water to the Onny it can "support the river [Clun's] environmental targets".Severn Trent is considering 10 such transfer schemes at sites across the Midlands including Lichfield and Environment Agency has said the firm will need to be issued with a permit before starting work on the project. "Applications of this nature are rigorously assessed in an open and transparent manner, and include a formal public consultation to ensure that evidence and information provided by local people is taken into consideration," the regulator said.
