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Dear
All. On Tuesday 6th July
at ca. 4.30pm, I happened across a white
liquid running out of the eastern most
culvert pipe at the very top of the
Kingsbridge Creek, the culvert that runs
alongside the small slipway with the swan
gates. I did report this to the
Environment Agency emergency number 0800
807060. I am just appealing for everyone
to keep an eye out for these events as
there has been a history of a white fluid
coming from this same culvert over the
years - I have seen it and had it
reported to me at least once before! [PLEASE
ALWAYS report any such events to the EA
first!] The liquid may be totally
inert but until we know what it is and
where it is coming from, I think we need
to take it seriously - hence my request
to all to keep this eye out. There was
probably no more than a litre, it looked
like a colloidal suspension (- looks a
bit like milk in water), left a white
residue on the weed in the pipe and on
the foreshore seaweed - also, what I
thought was odd was that even when it was
diluted in the main channel stream, it
was very obviously quite dense and sank
down to the the bed of the stream within
the water! What I really would
like reports of please, is when the next
red-tide appears and where, and if
you're in a boat, what the tide is doing
and how far down the estuary is it
noticeable? Why? The condition of the
upper portion of the estuary as a Site of
Special Scientific Interest is failing
and I am involved in drawing up a Diffuse
Water Pollution Plan with Natural England
and the Environmental Agency to try to
reduce the nutrient loading of the upper
estuary - the impacts of which are
believed to be the excessive amounts of
green seaweed over the mudflats
(particularly off Gerston Sewage
Treatment Works) and the red-tides
(plankton blooms of organisms known as
dinoflagellates) with all their real and
potential knock-on environmental (and
aesthetic!) problems, Please note
- all pollution incidents should be
reported at the time of observation to
the EA 0800 807060 at any time of day or
night - reports on red-tides can wait
until a more civilised time! ... unless
they are associated with large numbers of
dead fish, etc. in which case treat
as a pollution incident! Many
thanks in anticipation.
Cheers
Nigel
Nigel Mortimer
Estuaries Officer - South Devon AONB Unit
Follaton House, Plymouth Rd, Totnes,
Devon, TQ9 5NE
01803 861465
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