River Avon ranked as one of the worst for sewage spills

River Avon is the only river in the south of England to feature in the worst ten for spills.

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00:00I'm Paul Coulson, I work for the Institute of Fisheries Management, and at the moment

00:06I'm the Acting Chief Executive.

00:08You've got lots of money being earned, big bonuses, big wages being paid to people, and

00:14you know, your general public don't see an improvement in their services.

00:19So you're paying them however much they're paying out in dividends, it's big numbers

00:23isn't it?

00:24Yet, we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and we can see

00:29rubbish everywhere can't we, and you know, you see stories of dead fish and impacts on

00:37the marine environment.

00:38You know, we can put a drone up now can't we, and we can see clear as day where the

00:42pipes are and it's pumping sewage in, and you can pan round and there's people swimming

00:46in the sea.

00:47Here in Bristol it was found in April that the River Avon is in the top three waterways

00:51for the most amount of sewage spill in England.

00:54It's the only river in the south of England to feature in the worst ten.