END SEWAGE POLLUTION
Mid-Thames Group
Founded in July 2020, we are a community-lead group campaigning against sewage pollution of our rivers.
We love our rivers: they’re part of our daily lives, and we all walk, play, socialise, swim, paddle, row or fish on or around them. They give us many benefits, and they’re home to numerous other species.
However, our local rivers are in a poor state. In 2020, raw sewage was released into the upper Thames for 50,000 hours.
We want to stop the practice of dumping raw sewage in rivers entirely, and make our rivers safe and healthy for people and wildlife again.
Through hard work and campaigning, we now have bathing water status for one stretch of the River Thames through Oxford. But there need to be more stretches protected and tested.
This will prevent sewage spills and improve water quality – and we need your help to make it happen.
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Latest from the Blog
Just how much bacteria is in Oxford’s rivers?
We’re pleased and proud to be able to finally publish the results of 12 months of river water quality sampling and testing throughout 2021. It can be read here. The study sampled 18 river locations in and around Oxford, including 8 spots popular with swimming, canoeing, punting and rowing, for E Coli and Enterococci. These…
#EndSewagePollution March 2022 – taking a breath
Swimmers at Wolvercote Bathing Place, March 2022. Image credit : Jo Sandelson Hello everyone, I’ve been taking a bit of a breather whilst we wait for the decision on bathing water status and for our final report on testing to go through the Rivers Trust peer review process. It’s been wonderful to see the…
#endsewagepollution mid-Thames update January 2022
Image credit : Martyn Cattermole-Family Well, the year has started off with a bang, or rather with a stink, as sewage treatment works at Witney spilled for 11 days continuously. The appalling state of our rivers, due to raw sewage pollution and a cocktail of other chemicals has been in the news almost every day…
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