River Stour
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Length | 98 km |
|---|---|
| Mouth | English Channel |
| Source | Stourhead |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Cities | Sturminster Newton |
| Gillingham | |
| Districts | Salisbury District |
| South Somerset District | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2996138 |
About River Stour
The River Stour is a 61 mi river which flows through Wiltshire and Dorset in southern England, and drains into the English Channel. The catchment area for the river and its tributaries is listed as being 480 square miles.
Bronze Age gold torc discovered in field near Mistley
... The 3,000-year-old fragment was discovered near Mistley, on the River Stour in Essex, and has been declared treasure by a coroner...
Wild swimmers are getting sick from sewage, campaigners say
... Ness Woodcock-Dennis, a public health nurse and lecturer in nursing, is currently recovering from an eye infection after swimming in the River Stour at Manningtree in Essex...
Dramatic pictures show West Midlands storms
... Flood warnings which had been in place for the River Blythe in Warwickshire, the River Stour and Smestow Brook in the Black Country and South Staffordshire, and the Upper Tame had been removed by Tuesday morning...
Shark spotted in River Stour leaves woman 'amazed'
...A woman who spotted a shark in the River Stour was " amazed" by the unusual sighting...
Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
... In Manningtree, Essex, wild swimmers marched and dressed up in mermaid and giant poo costumes by the River Stour...
Manningtree: The tiny town that dreams of saving the planet
... The tiny place on the River Stour has been given special environmental status after its businesses agreed to stop using unnecessary single-use plastics...
Lawford: The village where the women are still in charge
... After graduating, Miss Roberts spent four years working as a research chemist at BX Plastics in Lawford, across the River Stour from its main base in Brantham...
Manningtree wild swimmers stage River Stour sewage protest
... Ness Woodcock-Dennis, a public health nurse and lecturer in nursing who took part in the protest in the River Stour at sunrise with about 50 others, said more needed to be done...
Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
Thousands of people have taken to rivers and waterways to protest against water companies dumping sewage in them.
The Day of action, organised by The Charity Surfers Against Sewage, involves 12 protests across the UK.
In Manningtree, Essex , wild swimmers marched and dressed up in mermaid and giant poo costumes by the River Stour .
Anglian Water , which admitted it dumped sewage in The River 389 times Last Year , said it was investing millions of pounds to rectify the " historic issue".
Catherine Arnold, a nutritional therapist who helped organised the Manningtree protest, said: " We Are So Lucky To Live in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we need to protect it. We don't release sewage into our gardens, why would we release it into our rivers? "
Water companies discharged raw sewage into British rivers 372,533 times Last Year , for a total of More Than 2. 6m hours, according to data from the Environment Agency .
Untreated sewage is only meant to be discharged into rivers in exceptional circumstances, for example, during heavy rainfall.
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Each protest targeted a separate water company:
•Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water
•Belfast - Northern Ireland Water
•Scarborough - Yorkshire Water
•Bath - Wessex Water
•Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water
•Newquay - South West Water
•Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water
•Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent
•New Brighton Beach , Wirral - United Utilities
Nic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E. coli counts in rivers. A sample he took in Manningtree showed an E. coli count of 1000cfu/100ml. The threshold for good bathing water is less than 500cfu/100ml.
He Said : " The Situation is quite bad. Every Time I sample in The River I'm shocked about the lack of biodiversity so I'm very concerned about it. "
Campaigner Anna Helm Baxter, who organised the Manningtree protest, said The Situation was " completely unacceptable".
" It's essential to keep up the pressure on the water companies and the government, who need to not only create stronger policies, and shorter timelines, but also make sure that they enforce their own rules, " she added.
'Riddled with sewage'The government announced last month.
Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage, said it did not go far enough. The Charity is calling for an end to sewage discharge into British bathing waters by 2030.
He Said British rivers had become pollution superhighways " riddled with sewage, chemicals and filth".
" The River and beach-loving public have had enough, " He Said . " Water companies must make urgent investments, funded from their vast profits, to turn off their filthy pollution tap and restore our rivers and seas. "
An Anglian Water spokesperson said: " Data from our 2021 monitoring programme tells us our performance continues to improve, and the increasing visibility we have of combined sewer overflow (CSO) activity gives us even more opportunities to act faster in the areas where we can have most environmental benefit.
" But we agree that CSOs are no longer an acceptable way of dealing with flooding and overloaded sewers and we need to do more. "
Source of news: bbc.com
