00:00 My name is Stephen Crawford, I represent Surf Against Sewage. We're on South Bay Beach in Scarborough
00:05 and we're part of the national SAS Surf Against Sewage big paddle out to protest about water quality.
00:12 All these people have a great passion for the sea, passion for the rivers, passion for all the water we have water users.
00:19 Last year Yorkshire Waters discharge went up by almost 50% and we're just fed up.
00:24 This company and the EA and governments are not taking it seriously what's happening
00:28 and we really want to see things improve and see things get to a level where we can start enjoying our seas and rivers as we should do.
00:35 Before we go in the sea there's a thing called a Safe for Seas and Rivers service which is an app
00:39 which lets you know if there's any sewage discharged in the area so we check that so we can do our best to avoid it.
00:45 This beach has had persistent pollution problems for a lot of years so that's why it's got such a poor status.
00:51 I've been surfing now for over 40 years and I've actually paddled literally through human excrement in the water
00:58 and it's really really really not acceptable.
01:01 A lot of people now have heard about things called CSOs which are combined storm outfalls and this is the main part of the problem.
01:06 So after heavy rain or sometimes when there are mistakes these pipes discharge human sewage into the sea.
01:12 So you can use a thing called a Safe for Seas and Rivers service app which SAS provide which will let you know if there's going to be a problem
01:17 because this is what we want, we want to enjoy our seas.
01:20 We don't want to be having to worry about going in the water.
01:23 I mean Yorkshire is a county of water, we've got so many reservoirs, so much coastline,
01:27 we don't want to feel threatened about going in the water, we want to actually enjoy it.
01:30 We want the companies to start taking this seriously and start doing their jobs properly.
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