00:00 We've seen a lot of dead birds washed up, some of our friends from along the Fylde coast
00:06 have seen actual raw sewage being washed up and I know that the litter pickers that regularly
00:11 come along Rossell and Cleveland, they've been picking up a lot more sanitary items.
00:16 On an app that we use called the Safer Seas and Rivers app, it's really ramped up this
00:20 year in terms of pollution risk alerts, discharges from the storm overflows and then obviously
00:26 we also had the incident at Fleetwood with the broken pipe. It makes me feel really sad
00:32 and also quite upset that the council isn't doing more to tell people to spread the news,
00:38 even when things were really really bad with the burst pipe up at Fleetwood, there were A4 signs
00:44 that were bent around poles and you couldn't really see what they were and they were next
00:48 to signs that are probably A1 that say this is a bathing beach. You know a lot of our group
00:56 have had really a lot poorer mental health since we've not been able to come in. It's been six
01:03 weeks now since the burst pipe and as Caroline said a few of us did go in at Fleetwood last week
01:10 which was lovely and I really felt it was like a boost to be able to get back in the sea and I
01:15 thought oh that's it, it's over and it's great and then of course the following day we were back
01:20 to square one again and it is very confusing and as Caroline says really we would just like some
01:27 answers. We're getting a lot of conflicting advice from different organisations so the YMCA for
01:34 example who commission the lifeguards, then you've got the Environment Agency, then you've got the
01:39 council and depending which website you go on or who you speak to you get different information
01:44 about whether it's safe to swim or not. The ideal outcome would be for us to start getting some
01:51 answers from people within the council and the MPs who can actually start to help us coordinate
02:01 a much bigger effort to stop this being an ongoing problem.
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