Tag archives for Environment Agency
Shingle All the Way
PAUL McLAUGHLIN People walking along the Hastings seafront in recent weeks will have noticed the massive buildup of shingle gathered up by the Harbour Arm in front of the RNLI…
Clean Water Action Update
The official bathing season ends on Sept 30 when volunteers from the Clean Water Action Group (CWAG) will be testing the local sea water again. CWAG will be taking weekly…
Up Banking
With millions of coastal homes at risk from flooding, DAVID EP DENNIS outlines the vital workof the Environment Agency in keeping us all from being inundated by rising sea-levels Kent…
Water Bill Boycott: Town Hall Event
There is something about the impunity with which England’s water companies are allowed to dump sewage into our rivers and seas: it seems emblematic of the corruption and gross inequality…
Clean Water Watch
A regular column to update readers on the damaging effects of the current management of water in Hastings, surrounding areas (and nationally) and what people are doing about it. If…
All Rise
As well as being a regular HIP contributor, DAVID EP DENNIS has been appointed as Project Manager for Bexhill-on-Sea Town Council’s Wild Domesday Project. One of his main areas of…
Old Bathing Pool: EA Reviewing Flood Risk Report
HUGH SULLIVAN Prospective developers of the Old Bathing Pool site at West Marina say they have submitted a ‘risk report’ to the Environment Agency, and are awaiting its ; Dave…
Has Southern Water dumped its last load?
LUCY BROWN We’ve burnt effigies, we’ve protested, filmed illegal dumping – yes pun intended – even sought legal advice against bill paying, yet Southern Water plough on pumping raw sewage…
Let them eat… porridge
Following the release of the Environment Agency’s latest annual Environmental Performance Assessmenton our local water company, Kent Barker writes an open letter to the bosses and board at Southern Water…
Buckshole reservoir works postponed
By Ben Cornwell Major maintenance and safety work at Buckshole Reservoir, which started back in September, has been put on hold until next spring. A Hastings Borough Council (HBC) spokeswoman…
Impressive Turnout for Clean Water Protest
By Suzanne Kelly Over fifty people turned out on Wednesday 27 October to highlight the continuing problems with water pollution. Facebook groups including Hastings Environment Network and Plastic Free Hastings…
Southern Watergate
By Ben Cornwell and Suzanne Kelly A few weeks ago, at Bulverhythe beach, all you would have heard were the calming sounds of the sea breeze, the pebbles clattering under…
Southern Water at Bay
A large sewage pipe at Bulverhythe belonging to Southern Water burst last week. According to initial reports, the leak occurred initially on the Wednesday and was partially repaired but, following…
Flood Warnings
By David Dennis How good are humans at seeing what might go wrong in their schemes? In the past few days there have been several flood warnings issued by the…
Frack Barclays, Not Sussex!
By Laurie Temple Don’t Frack with Sussex, organised a successful and good humoured, Halloweenesque anti-fracking protest, outside Barclays bank, in Hastings, as part of a nationwide campaign. Barclays, have a…