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There are government resources available which give also give daily pollution forecasts and all bathing water quality testing data, overflow locations etc. The testing is pretty good, I've seen them don a wetsuit and swim or wade out a bit to get samples.

environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/

Storm overflow outputs are pretty predictable atm, for around 24hrs after ANY rainfall, it will advise against bathing. The situation is dire.

What personally annoys me is the very disrespectful behaviour of the seeming majority of english residents who are perfectly happy to pave, tarmac or concrete their entire front garden to fill with cars, then replace the rear lawn with 'artificial grass'. Add this to the general transport development culture of builing bigger and wider roads, and any development in general, it all creates greater and faster run off.

Something needs to be done. Support SAS.

> What personally annoys me is the very disrespectful behaviour of the seeming majority of english residents who are perfectly happy to pave, tarmac or concrete their entire front garden to fill with cars

I disagree with your “disrespectful” label. Modern families might have 2-3 vehicles which can’t be parked on the streets as there’s no space. People have taken to parking two wheels on pavements so as not to block traffic.

Concreting front gardens is a _necessity_ in this modern world in many towns, not an act of malicious disrespect.

It is awful, though. Truly. I sometimes look at historic street photographs of the 50s/60s/70s. Well-manicured front gardens with very few cars on the road. Those days are all but gone… for now.

Acknowledge the use of disrespectful as not ideal language. And I've nothing against moving cars into front gardens, living in a car dependant society is not any individuals fault. I'm strugling to describe the behaviour well. It's perhaps a cultural attitude where this is just the thing to do, without having a heavy heart and without thought of any compromise even where people posess the means and nouse to acomplish something different. I guess this applies to so many things though...

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