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00:12Privateized water is a better deal than nationalized water.
00:17That the water privatization, I believe, will go very successfully indeed, that will go very
00:24successfully indeed, and perhaps therefore we have better wait and see so that we can
00:29quantificate in the light of the fact.
00:51Lewis! Lewis! What did I tell you about that seaweed? Do not throw it!
01:01Are you hungry?
01:05Ice cream! No!
01:07We just got here, you wanna? Yeah, we'll get it on the way back to the chalet, alright?
01:11Yeah, we'll get it back now. It's dead, isn't it?
01:13I did promise you, I will, I promise.
01:24It was way through. Heather, stop!
01:27What?
01:29Heather, I told you to stop, didn't I?
01:33Do you think that's poo?
01:34Of course, it's not poo.
01:39It wasn't poo.
01:41Love, don't come in!
01:43Don't come in like that!
01:45Can I have four? Shall I go?
01:46Go as far as you can!
01:49Wash it off, scrubby!
01:52You what?
01:53Scrubby!
01:53Hey, Heather!
01:54Have I got it?
01:55Down, you think?
01:56No, you are!
01:57Down, isn't that?
01:58Is it up her?
02:00Yeah, I think so.
02:01Get a towel.
02:02Yeah, get a drawer.
02:03Me?
02:04We've got a smelly little mermaid!
02:06It smells, that!
02:08Hi, hey!
02:09Hello!
02:09That's Hickory.
02:10Yeah!
02:11Tell the other one, what about that one?
02:13No.
02:14No?
02:14Oh, look at that!
02:29It was quite remarkable, really, that with most of the fresh water fish burning,
02:35It was just on this stretch, really seriously, that was including the chub.
02:39The chub came later, of course.
02:42They're gone.
02:43What, the chub?
02:44Well, the chub, the barbell, the heels, everything.
02:48Well, yes, I mean, the water's brown.
02:53You don't really think about the colour when you see it every day.
03:00I mean, the brown here just seems normal.
03:03Yes, sir.
03:04Would Eileen still do that water vole register?
03:08No.
03:08No, that's so.
03:09No, that's right.
03:14I mean, I remember when I first came here, it was crystalline, wasn't it?
03:40You never talk about your work.
03:42Well, I'd often, you know, it's part of the training.
03:46It's not sort of, you know, dinner conversation.
03:48Well, you know, you're tired now.
03:48It's not like I'm a Russian spy, am I?
03:51It's not like I'm, you know, not working for Putin, am I?
03:55That makes me wonder.
03:56Now, why would you say that?
03:57Well, you investigated Ben Coppers, wasn't it?
04:00Yeah, 25 years.
04:01Well, come on, but 25 years you must have, you must have some stories, wasn't you?
04:06Not really.
04:08Why don't you have the game pie?
04:09I don't like game pie.
04:10Shall we get some mixed greens?
04:11No.
04:12I'm just having the soup and the crusty bread that sounds nice.
04:17No, no, no.
04:18That's right, yes.
04:20There will have been some minor discoloration in one or two sections of the river.
04:27There's been a discharge from the Burford Works.
04:31A discharge?
04:32Discharge of what?
04:34Untreated sewage.
04:35Yeah, legally they're allowed to spill after heavy rainfall.
04:40So they can, they can, they can just do that, can't they?
04:43That's what you said.
04:44They're allowed to dump untreated sewage into the river right after heavy rain.
04:50But that can't be right, because it rains all the time.
04:54Well, heavy rain, you said.
04:55I don't remember any heavy rain, do you?
04:57You know, I'm going to write to Thames Water and ask how many times they've put sewage into the river.
05:01Well, they're not going to tell you that.
05:03Oh, yeah, yeah, they've got to.
05:04What's the law?
05:06Dear Mr. Smith, no untreated sewage has been discharged into the river Windrush for the past three years.
05:13Untreated sewage mixed with treated sewage has been discharged 240 times.
05:18Kind regards.
05:19When did that come in?
05:20When did it come in that you could put untreated sewage into the river per se?
05:25I don't see how putting any kind of pathogens into the river could possibly be allowed. I mean, people are
05:31swimming in there.
05:33Dear Mr. Smith, in response to your request for information, please find attached the documents below.
05:39Kind regards.
05:40Wankers.
05:41This must be like one of your cases, mustn't it? All this? When you used to be a detective?
05:48No.
05:49But, you know, poisonous stuff in the river and we're not being warned about it? That'd be a scandal.
06:08It's a tummy bug. 48 hour thing. Plenty of liquids. I'll give you some anti-sickness tablets just to stop
06:15the vomiting.
06:15Okay?
06:19Hey, darling.
06:20Oh, shit. How many was it?
06:21The doctor said you got to take your medicine now.
06:24See?
06:26Close your eyes if you want, ma'am. Yeah, keep them close, then you go.
06:31Well, exactly.
06:33No, they said treated sewage mixed with untreated sewage 240 times.
06:37Yeah.
06:50This is free jazz, is it?
06:53Oh, um, no, it's not free jazz. It's, uh, intemporary jazz. And so they like free jazz.
06:58Right.
06:59And people pay money to listen to them.
07:01She's just come round to piss me off.
07:04No.
07:05I'm gonna show you something.
07:06Look at this.
07:07So, uh, what is this? So this is, uh, is this a reply from Thameswater?
07:12They're drowning me in numbers.
07:13Oh, I can see that.
07:14I mean, how are you supposed to make anything of that crap?
07:17Well, maybe, maybe that's what they're banking on.
07:19There's a needle in there somewhere, just, you know, go through the haste to find it.
07:23You're the Oxford professor of mathematics?
07:26No, computational biology. It's not, um...
07:29Still math.
07:30It's not machine learning, actually.
07:32So what's that like, AI?
07:33I know you're gonna take the piss, but it's, it's a bit like free jazz.
07:36Oh!
07:38Depressed and un-pointless?
07:39Uh, no, no, there's rules.
07:41So there's a kind of order beneath the, the chaos.
07:46Um, and you've gotta listen really hard, uh, for the patents.
07:49Why don't you just email me these and I'll, I'll take a look.
08:03Omm...
08:06Omm...
08:22Omm...
08:23These, what you've given me, they're flow numbers.
08:26They track the sewage coming into the works and the rate of which is treated so it's safe to go
08:32back into the river.
08:33But there's something weird about this.
08:37Yeah?
08:38What?
08:38Well, here, look.
08:40Now, on the 27th of December, the flow of treated effluent coming out of the works just stops.
08:48It just stops completely.
08:49Right, what do you mean it stops?
08:51The flow, it just stops.
08:52There's no treated effluent going back into the river.
08:56So, two days after Christmas, the people of Burford stop going to the toilet?
09:01No, no, see, this is it.
09:03Because the raw sewage is still going into the works, but there's nothing coming out.
09:11Now, that's just not right.
09:15So, what do we do?
09:17I don't know.
09:17I'll go back to them and say, give us a bit more detail.
09:20Is that Ashley and Peter?
09:21Yes, yes, yes.
09:22Well, thanks so much for taking my call.
09:24It's Commander Aylard here.
09:26External Affairs and Sustainability at Thames.
09:30Richard, lovely to speak with you.
09:31Listen, I thought, well, why not get on your dog on the phone?
09:33Well, we appreciate your calling.
09:35Not at all.
09:36Having our feet held to the fire like this is the thing that keeps us focused.
09:38Yeah, we've been asking about this anomaly in the flow data.
09:43On the 27th of December, there's no treated effort going back into the river.
09:49Yeah.
09:49Nobody seems to be able to explain why that is.
09:52It's taken too long to get to the bottom of this.
09:54I've had to put some rockets up a few jacksies, frankly.
09:58Turns out the flow meters at Burford were on the blink, heavy rain.
10:04The sewage flow was normal, but the sensors weren't generating any data.
10:10It's safe to assume the people of Burford did not stop discharging.
10:17The measurements were temporarily interrupted.
10:20It's weird.
10:22And we'd like to invite you on a tour of the Burford works.
10:27It's just strange, isn't it, that all of the sensors stopped working at that one point.
10:33We can't think of any other explanation, frankly, but, you know.
10:36I won't be there, regrettably, but Leonie will be there, and you'll be in very good hands.
10:40You know, of course we'd like to do more, but the challenge is that Burford's sewers are basically Victorian.
10:46Does anyone actually work here?
10:48It's an unmanned facility.
10:50It should be unpeopled, really, shouldn't it?
10:54Do we have unpeopled works in Victorian times?
10:56Good one, no.
10:57But we do have a state-of-the-art network of sensors which track all the treated fluid and effluent
11:04through the works.
11:05So, um, nobody works here?
11:09The sensors automatically transmit data to our Waste Operation Control Centre in Reading 24 hours a day.
11:16Right.
11:17Oh, that's what we call the telemetry.
11:20And what happens if something breaks down?
11:23Oh, so our works are serviced by a team of mobile engineers.
11:27If a piece of kit malfunctions, a trigger will sensor an alarm, and an engineer is dispatched within two hours.
11:34Right.
11:36Oh, in here is where the engineers' logbooks live.
11:42They, uh, keep a record of anything that happens in one of these, but, um, stuff up here, this is
11:46the really exciting part.
11:47So this is all the live, real-time data being uploaded from the plants.
11:52Yes, I can see it's, uh, quite extensive, isn't it?
11:55You can see the information coming through, can't you?
11:59Mm, yeah.
12:00It's funny, because, like, you know, all the data's being pumped out, you can see it, but actually no-one's
12:04looking at it.
12:05You could save a bit of electricity there, couldn't you?
12:08What's that over there?
12:09You've got, um, sort of cafe?
12:11No, that is our dedicated breakout zones, you know, for teas, coffees, relaxation, um, yeah, any time.
12:18It's inviting, inviting, isn't it?
12:20Yeah, no, it's nice, I like it.
12:21It's just nobody's here to enjoy the tea, aren't you?
12:23Oh, no, no, well, thank God.
12:25That would mean something was going wrong.
12:28All right, thank you.
12:29Great.
12:31Yeah, great.
12:32Oh, sorry.
12:33There's a hole there.
12:34Did anyone mention that we'd been invited to the town hall in Burford?
12:38The commander wants us all there.
12:39It's really exciting, actually.
12:41You know, we think it's important that we hold our hands up when mistakes are made.
12:48God, did you see?
12:50See her face?
12:51Like a huge deal, like.
12:54I can't believe it.
12:56I'm looking at us for all the telemetry.
12:58You know, they've got to give it to us.
12:59That's, that's hundreds of thousands of days at a point.
13:03And everything that goes on in the works.
13:05Right, right, just try not to get too excited.
13:07Well, I'm just saying.
13:10I'm just saying.
13:11Calm down.
13:16Okay, have you been giving her plenty of liquids?
13:19Yes.
13:20Been keeping her warm?
13:21Yes, did everything you said.
13:23Okay, and are there any more symptoms?
13:26Yes.
13:28She's been bleeding from her backside, Doctor.
13:31I'm calling an ambulance.
13:36So, look, I've got the telemetry for Burford, and I've deciphered the engineer's handwriting.
13:4427th of December, engineer's name is Michael Lazarus.
13:51It turns out here that at eight minutes past five, on the morning of the 27th, the alarm got triggered
13:58at the works, and the communications had failed.
14:02But it must have been intermittent, because at eight minutes past six, the center got a message to say that
14:09both the main inlet pumps had failed.
14:14Then, at 16 minutes past eight, another alarm was triggered.
14:19The storm tank was overflowing.
14:23And that's when the dumping started.
14:27So, the pumps have packed up.
14:29The storm tank's overflowing.
14:31You've got three alarms sounding.
14:33Obviously, they dispatched an engineer.
14:36Not for five and a half hours.
14:43Wet pumps one and two, both failed.
14:45Returned liquor pump, failed.
14:47Balancing tank, fall.
14:48Untreated sewage tank, fall.
14:50Effluent chamber, flooded.
14:54I don't need this shit.
15:01Storm tank's filled to the top.
15:03All the sewage is flushing into the river.
15:08Set.
15:14Returned liquor pump, reset.
15:16Might fail again.
15:19The hull's just gonna hold.
15:22Trying my best here.
15:25Everything's failing.
15:26He did what he could to patch things up.
15:28And by then, it's been dumping sewage into the windrush for over five hours.
15:33Yeah, and we know.
15:35We know that there wasn't any heavy rainfall, like Aylard said, because it didn't even rain on that day.
15:41Yeah.
15:42And the oxidation tank failed on the 28th.
15:45The rotation arms packed up on the 29th.
15:49Burford was falling apart.
15:50I couldn't handle all the sewage he was taking in, so he was just flashing everything into the river.
15:56And I feel that Mickey's the kind of person who's in the habit of telling the truth, don't you?
16:01Yeah.
16:01What about Commander Aylard?
16:13The results are back from the lab.
16:16It's quite serious.
16:18Heather has been infected with E. coli.
16:22The most aggressive strain, 0157.
16:29We're going to keep her comfortable, keep an eye on her, and hope that it passes through.
16:35It's possible that the virus could attack Heather's kidney functions, which might have serious consequences for other organs.
16:51This was really about a temporary malfunction to the alarm, we think at least partly caused by the heavy rainfall
16:58that day,
16:59rather than any actual interruption to the treatment process.
17:02So what I'd like to do...
17:04Sorry, can I say a few words, Commander?
17:08Yes, of course.
17:09There was no heavy rain.
17:12In fact, it didn't rain at all.
17:15If you'll bear with me, what I have here is the engineer's logbooks.
17:22The engineer is called Michael Lazarus.
17:25And what you can see from Mr. Lazarus's logs is that the alarms were, in fact, functioning as normal.
17:33They were triggered as soon as the flooding began.
17:36But the thing is, Mr. Lazarus was not dispatched to the works for more than five hours.
17:42The plant was falling apart.
17:44It couldn't treat the sewage it was taking in, and so it was just pumping it all out directly into
17:51the river.
17:55Well, thanks so much, Ash.
17:58And to you, Peter.
17:59It does look as though I've been misinformed.
18:03And I intend to get to the bottom of this.
18:05And I'll be putting my thumb on whoever...
18:08So what are you going to do about what these two gentlemen have said?
18:10What's going to happen now?
18:11I think that we are both shocked, absolutely shocked, to hear that information because we were...
18:18You've said one thing.
18:19They've actually backed up with evidence something completely the opposite.
18:24Our river.
18:25You're just dumping it and just covering everything up.
18:28And making money.
18:29And what's the long-term problems for the wildlife, the fish and the birds?
18:34What's happening with those?
18:35The ecological welfare of our rivers and our waterways is something that we find incredibly important.
18:42And what are you doing?
18:43So that's why.
18:43Nothing.
18:44You're polluting our water.
18:46I wouldn't even let my dog swim in the river now.
18:48That's disgusting.
18:49It is our highest, highest priority that we will be fixing this as soon as possible.
18:54I can assure you, from all of us at Thames Water, we are working night and day.
19:00Well, I think you need our team.
19:01I do.
19:02I do as well.
19:02Thank you, sir.
19:03Thank you for your help.
19:05Thank you very much for the meeting.
19:08Should we go outside?
19:10Yes.
19:11I think he just lied to us.
19:13The streets of Madame took to our faces.
19:15Oh, no.
19:16He said he was misinformed.
19:18Princess Diana's Equalier.
19:19What is that, by the way?
19:21I don't know.
19:23It helps when people lie.
19:25It's how you know they've got something to hide.
19:42I mean, it's ammonia we need to keep an eye out.
19:45That's going to read high right after they've dumped the sewage.
19:49Fuck, I mean, it is actually like one of your cases, isn't it?
19:53Not really, no.
19:55It's more real-time monitoring of the river.
19:58And the outflow pipes as well.
20:02So the question is, is Burford acting alone?
20:07Because there's, what, seven?
20:09Seven, is it?
20:10Seven works along the Windrush.
20:13So we need to know if Burford is an outlier, single failing plant.
20:17Like a lone assassin, just killing everything that lives in the water.
20:22Or are they more like Burford?
20:24Well, I mean, I suppose I could order the telemetry and get it for all of them.
20:36Dear EIR team, I would be grateful if you could supply all the telemetry exchanges
20:45between the control centre and the works on North Beach.
20:50Church, Hambro, Whitney, and Arnold.
20:54And I also see me, Professor Peter Hammond.
21:05I can't find a pulse.
21:11Is there nothing?
21:14That's weird.
21:20No, I can't feel anything.
21:22No.
21:23Somebody call for help?
21:24Help, no.
21:25Can we get a doctor in here, please?
21:33What have you done to your finger?
21:34Oh, I don't know.
21:37I woke up this morning and it was like that.
21:39It feels a bit weird.
21:40Well, do you think that Charlie should take a look at that?
21:42I mean, she is a chemist, isn't she?
21:44I know she's a chemist, don't you?
21:45Well, okay, so you know that they sent me all these data flows from the works of Whitney
21:50and at Church, Hambro.
21:51Yeah.
21:52But what I've done, I've converted the programme that I built for the fetal alcohol kits.
22:02What happened there was that the mothers, they were being paid in wine,
22:05so most of their children had fetal alcohol syndrome.
22:10What I did was that I took thousands of photographs of these FAS kits.
22:17And so by showing the machine, hundreds of these faces of these unborn children,
22:22we taught it to spot the features of fetal alcohol syndrome in the womb.
22:34So when the programme sees it in a scan,
22:37then it can tell the doctor straight away
22:40and then they can stop helping the mother and the kid.
22:46Now, Burford does most of his heavy lifting during early morning,
22:49just before everyone goes to work.
22:51Right.
22:51And then again in the evening, when they come back home.
22:55So you can see the flows of treated effluent hitting the daily peaks and troughs.
23:01Now, that's when the penny dropped.
23:03The thing is, that is just like the contours on a baby's face.
23:11By showing the machine nine years of this flow data,
23:15I've taught it to recognise when the usual flows,
23:19they don't show up.
23:22When the everyday flows are missing,
23:25well, they're not treating the sewage.
23:27And if they're not treating the sewage,
23:29there's nowhere for it to go.
23:31Except?
23:32Into the river.
23:34Except into the river.
23:55We've decided to transfer Heather to the Bristol Hospital for Children.
24:00It's one of the best in the country.
24:02They'll be able to look after her there.
24:05It's getting bigger, I think.
24:07Have you been in the river again?
24:09Yeah, yeah.
24:10Did you have any cuts?
24:12Yeah, yeah.
24:14I pricked my finger on a thorn when I was sitting at the camera.
24:17Before or after you went into the river?
24:19Before.
24:19Oh, right.
24:22So if there's a pathogen in the water,
24:25you've given it direct entry into your bloodstream.
24:30Is that bad?
24:31It's bad, you muppet.
24:33You need antibiotics.
24:36You know, a lot of sewage has drugs in it.
24:39And if they mix with bacteria,
24:42then the bacteria becomes antibiotic resistant,
24:46which means that the antibiotics might not work on you,
24:49so they might have to try different types of medication on you.
24:53Oh, God.
24:55Hold on.
24:59So what are you doing?
25:01I'm just drawing on you.
25:04Why?
25:04Because if it gets bigger, then we will know.
25:08That looks worse now.
25:11So that's where she drew the marker,
25:13and that's how much bigger it's got in like two days.
25:16Bloody hell.
25:16And that is just from putting your hand in the river.
25:19Yeah, I'm an idiot.
25:21We know that, but I mean,
25:23if it's doing that to your hand,
25:25just think about what it's doing to all the creatures that live in the river.
25:28Exactly.
25:28What was it you wanted to show me?
25:30Oh, yeah, well, you know,
25:31I got all this data through from North Leech.
25:34You know, are we on to the wheat chief there?
25:36Oh, yeah.
25:36That was overpriced for what it was.
25:38Well, you thought so,
25:39but anyway, look,
25:40they must have sent this by mistake,
25:43because I'm pretty sure they haven't read it.
25:45Why?
25:45Why do you say that?
25:46Because it says here that the works at North Leech,
25:49they haven't treated any sewage for three and a half months.
25:53So either the good people of North Leech have been holding it in for three and a half months,
25:58or...
25:58I know they did not do that because I have the love books and North Leech is on Michael Leseris's
26:07feet.
26:10Fucking hate my life.
26:20Sight flooding for the fifth day running.
26:27Storm tank high alarm sounding for nearly 48 hours now.
26:31Storm pump failure alarm sounding for nearly four days.
26:35All four biofilters not rotating.
26:38No flow coming into the works.
26:41Power surges have badly affected all equipment on site.
26:45Serious plant failure.
26:49Generator not running.
26:51Ran in to get the site going.
26:53Oh, fuck's sake.
26:55What's going on?
26:56Oh, fuck's sake.
26:57Oh, fuck's sake.
26:58Oh, fuck's sake.
27:01Oh, fuck's sake.
27:28Yeah, Liam.
27:32Yeah, listen mate, I'm at North Beach. Power's gone, mate. Power's packed up. Generator's gone.
27:38Mate, it's gone. We can't treat sewage without any power. We're either backing up or we're dumping it straight into
27:45the river.
27:48And leave, mate. There's sewage coming up from the ground.
28:06Tamsa's own data shows North Beach hasn't treated any sewage for three and a half months.
28:11Yeah. So look, there's two works, and they're a few miles of each other, both rotting into the sludge, both
28:20dumping illegally.
28:22We've got to get this to the Environment Agency. They've got prosecuting powers.
28:26What do you mean?
28:26Well, they don't have to show their evidence to the police. These are crimes.
28:29They can prosecute privately.
28:32What, so they can just take temps to court?
28:36Yes. They're the sewage police.
28:39Wow. Can anyone else do that?
28:42Post office.
28:43The post office? That's unusual.
28:46I can see that your swelling's gone down.
28:49Yeah, yeah, the antibiotics are kicking in.
28:52Very good.
28:53And it's about keeping us a little bit more local.
28:58Sorry, I'm just going to fold this up, actually.
29:01We want to strip out as much unnecessary regulation as possible.
29:07So, under operator self-monitoring, we're going to be asking the water companies to monitor their own environmental performance,
29:17flagging any breaches to us as a priority.
29:20I, um, sorry, I don't understand.
29:23So, um, you want water companies to monitor their own pollution?
29:28Yeah.
29:29It's about shifting the burden of regulation onto the companies and asking the water companies if there's been a pollution
29:37to give us the details.
29:39Uh, hang on, hang on.
29:43Just, just to be clear, you want us to ask the water companies to tell us when they've dumped sewage.
29:52It's about pivoting away from, away from on-site inspections to a more desk-based approach.
30:01Yeah, it's, it's sort of streamlining our process.
30:04So, you want us to start visiting sewage works?
30:07No, no, no, no, we'll still be doing on-site inspections, yeah, of course, um, provided that we give the
30:13company two weeks' notice of our visit.
30:15Yeah, but that's a, that is a problem because, well, sorry, again.
30:18Yeah.
30:19Um, but if we give the water companies two weeks' notice, they'll just clean up before we get there.
30:25I mean, it's, it, it is an honour system, so, if the companies say that there hasn't been an incident,
30:31I, I don't think we should go looking for reasons to challenge that.
30:34So, what you're saying is, regulate yourselves, and then just let us know if you've committed any crimes.
30:45Yeah.
30:48Thanks so much.
30:49Okay, see you.
30:55To Julia Simpson, Area Director, Environment Agency, dear Julia, I live in Oxfordshire, near the River Windrush.
31:03My neighbour, Professor Peter Hammond, and I have been gathering evidence of sewage discharges into our river by Thames Water.
31:11We'd like to bring what we've learned to the attention of the Environment Agency.
31:14Dear Julia, we'd like to invite you to meet some members of our group.
31:19To discuss issues of sewage pollution.
31:21Dear Julia, we are going to take a trip down the river on foot and by boat, looking at possible
31:26sources of sewage pollution.
31:28Would the Environment Agency be interested?
31:30Dear Julia, we are still waiting for a suitable point of contact.
31:39Dear Ashley, the Department for the Environment will provide you with a full response by the 8th of June 2018.
31:47She's got an MBE.
31:49And a bloody big salmon.
31:52Why is she taking so long to get back to us?
31:55Doesn't she realise you're doing your job for her?
31:57I don't know.
31:58I might put in a complaint.
32:06I don't know.
32:14I might put in a complaint.
32:16I don't know.
32:16kindness, thanks, thank you very much.
32:45agency i'm so sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you honestly waiting for defra it is
32:51maddening well we've found each other now we wanted to ask about how the agency monitors
32:58sewage dumps into the river spills yes well as you probably know we manage operator self-monitoring
33:07what operator self-monitor what's that yes it's for thames water to report any potential breaches
33:14you mean it's thames's job to tell you when they've dumped sewage
33:19to report potential pollution incidents yes what if they don't report them we would expect
33:25thames to report 100 of pollution incidents so it's not even your responsibility to inspect the works
33:36for well to see if they're working well no absolutely we inspect the treatment works yes
33:43of course we do how often well we would inspect perhaps once every few days up to perhaps once
33:50every six months depending on the inspection team's judgment we're aware that there's been some
33:56discussion locally around water quality on the wind rush and in fact we just completed a new survey
34:03so i was thinking it would be a good idea for me to take up your invitation come down to
34:08the village hall
34:09and to go over some of the results so the good news is that our testing shows that there's no
34:17evidence
34:18that the wind rush is seriously polluted or that the quality of the water has declined we do know
34:23that the river is more brown these days but our evidence has shown that this brown color has got
34:30nothing to do with sewage uh sorry we've spoken earlier on the telephone i wonder if you could
34:37confirm something you told me then that um the agency inspects all the works along the wind rush between
34:43every two to three days and every six months yes that's right professor peter hammond and i'm also part
34:50of this uh uh wind rush group uh a colleague of yours told me that actually you only inspect once
34:57every eight years and also i've just been listen listen i've been i've been running uh your your
35:04figures and um so you've only done about half of the inspections that you needed to have been doing
35:10in fact you've only been visiting the works once every 16 years we also took a look at your water
35:18quality
35:19tests and the thing is they were all carried out upstream from all the major sewage works it's almost
35:26as if you've chosen the cleanest part of the river to conduct your test the river is actually devoid of
35:34anything in there the fish and all the wildflower and everything that reads on from that from your
35:40kingfishers to everything you've absolutely ruined this place and you should be bloody well ashamed of
35:51yourself you destroyed the water crisp beds as well that used to be a source of industry years ago totally
35:59gone so we will be taking all your feedback into consideration i will have to go away
36:04and we will listen to your feedback i promise you thank you
36:33uh
36:34is it mr lazarus my name's ash smith this is my colleague professor peter hammond we're doing some
36:40research on thames water and uh listen it's all off the record you're not disclosing the names of
36:48anyone we talked to we wondered if you could spare 10 minutes
37:00people call me mickey thank you very much for coming here i know it's not easy so we appreciate it
37:04so much i'm gonna tell you i'm not grass okay so i did grass on my mate like in year
37:10eight back in
37:10the day but this is different from grassing right this is like blowing the whistle i told you i'm an
37:14ex-copper yeah you've told me that as well that's made me this this is not grassing is like when
37:18you
37:18grass your mates and blowing the whistle whistle blowing is when you like grass on your boss right
37:25we're gonna start um all right check this out most water companies get sold every 10 years or so jp
37:33morgan
37:33morgan standee kuwait sovereign fund chinese banks we've had them all made
37:46so um macquarie bought us in 2006 that's the that's the australian hedge fund it's known as
37:53the millionaire's factory such are the reputed riches of many of mccrory's key executives the
37:58vampire kangaroo and they've earned that name because they are bloodsuckers leading companies rely
38:03on mccrory for advice access to capital first thing they did was sell our offices and then rent them back
38:09to us what wrongans they make del boy look like a amateur then they said that we had to get
38:15management clearance to buy pens right to the top to buy a biro not even a parker not a fancy
38:22pen
38:23it's a normal pen piss take all right now let's say this right a pipe's broken what you do normally
38:29you take it out you put a new one in they would tell us to stick a collar around it
38:33it's not going to
38:34hold what's the color it's just like sticking plaster it's not going to hold it's a temporary fix the
38:38pipe's still rotten okay it's going to go again it's a box job it's like frankenstein why don't
38:44they want to do it properly why don't they want to spend money and seal it properly they don't give
38:48a monkeys about the works you know why because they're going to flip you if they don't want to
38:53spend any money on it how are they going to maintain your works they don't give a you know why
38:59they're like dodgy house flippers they're going to go in there it's still rotten inside and they
39:02flip it they're out that's why i bank for macquarie macquarie when they flogged us they walked away
39:09with around 2.8 billion quid it's scandalous so how do you know all this then i started working for
39:18thames when i was 16. right on my second day i joined the union i get people ringing me up
39:24every day
39:24mickey it's all falling apart we can't keep it going pete if you were there working there you're an
39:31engineer you know and the pumps ain't working your own capacity what's your best option well the best
39:36option obviously is just to get rid of the sewage i suppose the the only the only option is to
39:43press
39:43the button that flushes it all out i'm not proud to admit that and i feel guilty you know i
39:51see people
39:51swimming in the in these rivers and they think their kids swim in the rivers what am i supposed to
39:56do i
39:56know what goes in there i'll put it in there we're at tipping point here fellas
40:04so we have run the brain tests heather's brain has lost the ability to control her vital organs and
40:11unfortunately they are failing i'm really very sorry but i think it's time we consider turning off
40:21her ventilators
40:22so
40:26so
40:40so
40:40so
40:41so
41:06dear professor hammond i'm a member of citizens against
41:10south west west water we formed a year ago to fight the company sewage dumping in our bit of
41:16devon one of our group was recently given these which we thought you should see
41:26a girl of eight may have been the first person in britain to have contracted fatal e coli poisoning
41:33but two words they might have been the first person of the day of the day of the course was
41:33all in the day from raw sewage and all the people including four children who all visited the beach on
41:40july 28th
41:41were also struck down by the same bacterial strain
41:47Have a brain tied to V. Carlin.
41:59If you'd like, we could bring her over to you.
42:06Here we go.
42:08All right.
42:09Here we go.
42:10All right.
42:12I'll just leave you together for a little while now, okay?
42:19I'll just leave you together for a little while now.
42:49I'll just leave you together for a little while now.
42:49All right.
42:50Okay.
42:51There we go.
42:53All right.
42:54There we go.
42:56Be careful with me.
42:57It's okay.
42:58All right.
42:59Move on.
42:59Come on.
42:59Let's go.
43:01Come on.
43:03Come on.
43:11Come on.
43:14Come on.
43:18Come on.
43:21Come on.
43:29Okay.
43:31Watch me.
43:32Sorry about getting in.
43:43Right there.
43:58so you know how i taught the machine to look for the anomalies in uh whitney and church amber
44:05yeah right well have you been free jazzing your numbers again well it's actually a lot
44:09of hard work you know no oh no sorry you're just looking for the patterns and spotting
44:14the deviations yeah right and you know that you do know that um when machine sees an abnormality
44:20you can only mean one thing that it's it's dumping sewage yes okay so in the nine years
44:26that i have data for these two works alone whitney and church amber they've dumped sewage a thousand
44:35times these aren't accidents ash it's a policy
44:45this is starting to look like organized crime
45:00no this isn't right that's
45:03no this ain't right that's pure sewage
45:08you say you've got insufficient evidence but we keep giving you
45:11the evidence all we ever do is give you the evidence if you don't know what caused the
45:16infection then you need to shut down the beach that's not going to happen i wonder if we should
45:20be calling it an outbreak feel like the kind of term that could alarm people we are conducting
45:24investigation under section 108 of the environment close the beach before this happens to somebody
45:30else with their kids with fishing nets sitting amongst turds
45:34reuben
45:38reuben
45:39he's another whistleblower
45:42you
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