Submitted on Thursday 16th March 2023
Rejected on Monday 20th March 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
End sewage discharges into our seas and rivers.
Storm overflows were designed in the Victorian era to be used during extreme weather to prevent sewers becoming overloaded by releasing diluted wastewater into our rivers and sea. The system is outdated. The current government timeline and regulations is to have addressed the issue by 2050.
On the 26th Aug, 2022, the government published a plan to reduce the discharge of sewage from overflows by water companies, requiring them to take actions to ensure no storm overflows are operating outside of unusually heavy rainfall, or causing any adverse ecological harm by 2035, and, to improve all overflows discharging into or near designated bathing water, and 75% of overflows discharging to high priority ecological sites by 2050. We implore the government to set more ambitious targets.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you want the Government to set more ambitious targets to reduce the impact of storm overflow discharges, but it's not clear what new targets you want the Government to set.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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