Tory Sewage Scandal As Raw Sewage Dumped Into Dagenham and Rainham Rivers.

Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Dagenham and Rainham Margaret Mullane, today writes in the Havering Daily.

Last year, the Conservatives allowed 11 raw sewage spills to be dumped into Dagenham and Rainham’s open spaces and rivers, the Labour Party has revealed.

The data comes after Labour analysis showed that nationally since 2016, a new sewage dumping event has taken place an average of every two-and-a-half minutes, with rivers, lakes, seas, and beaches having faced a staggering 1,276 years’ worth of raw sewage over just a seven-year period.

A Parliamentary Question tabled by Shadow Environment Secretary Jim McMahon, revealed that the Conservative Government has failed to conduct any economic assessments of the impact of sewage pollution on tourism trade and businesses.

During the passage of the Environment Bill, Conservative MPs voted to allow water firms to continue sewage dumping, having blocked a Labour-backed amendment that would have progressively eliminated sewage dumping.

Margaret Mullane, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Dagenham and Rainham told the Havering Daily: “The next Labour Government will end the Tory sewage scandal, delivering mandatory monitoring on all sewage outlets, introducing automatic fines for discharges, setting ambitious targets for stopping systematic sewage dumping and ensuring that water bosses are held to account for negligence.” 

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