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has kept the results of water sampling tests a secret from bathers after sewage was pumped into the sea around Blackpool,The public body said it is not sharing water sampling results because it regards the incident, which saw raw sewage pumped into the sea because of a cracked pipe, as “abnormal.”
The advice was issued by local councils after a major incident at the wastewater treatment works in Fleetwood involving a fractured pipe.– said the collapse had left the plant running at reduced capacity and during periods of heavy rainfall the system has been overwhelmed and sewage was discharged into the sea.
Such abnormal conditions include pollution that is “not likely to occur more than once in four years on average”, a customer services officer said. A spokesperson for the Environment Agency added: “We have ramped up monitoring along the Fylde coast to support the assessment of this incident’s impact and the samples we are collecting in the affected waters will form part of our robust investigation which is underway.
“We have previously estimated that £20bn needs to go into ensuring that we have sufficient water by 2050. United Utilities says it has been working around the clock to build a new, overground pipe as a temporary fix to the incident at Fleetwood.
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