| Swimming in sewerage
Doesn't sound very pleasant but it appears that I used to when I was a kid.
Driving along the coast around Hastings and Eastbourne this year the sea is a lovely blue colour. I can never remember it being this blue and as a kid remember it being a murky brown colour. We were always told that this was the sand being churned up by the waves.
A new sewerage treatment plant has been in operation in Hastings for the last year or so. Previously the raw sewerage was pumped out to sea via a long sea outfall. The blue sea coinciding with the coming online of this new plant can't be a coincidence and leads me to believe that the murky brown was not sand but sewerage.
We all moan that things were better when we were kids but this is one instance when they are certainly a lot better.
Mike |