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April 22, 2007 at 7:37 pm

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Acidfairy

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Oh Shit!!!! (sorry)

This has only just come on the news today.. which is appauling as the incident occured on Friday afternoon..

We have been away for the weekend and saw all this on the news before we came back up the road, it is literally just down the road from us.. It’s shocking that the public weren’t alerted to this earlier. The weather has been great all weekend here with loads of people heading to the beach..

You can read 3 of the bbc articles here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6580253.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6580923.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6581625.stm
April 22, 2007 at 8:01 pm

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Acidfairy, shame about the news yeah. By the way, are you from Midlands? I’m sure l’ve seen you somewhere b4 in real life…
April 22, 2007 at 8:03 pm

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Acidfairy

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Nope mate, i’m from Scotland, although in the late 90’s early 2000 i was living in Redditch..
April 22, 2007 at 8:07 pm

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Yeh or maybe l saw you on TV or in a magazine. Are you quite famous?
April 22, 2007 at 8:07 pm

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Acidfairy

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DynamicDon’tPanic wrote:

Yeh or maybe l saw you on TV or in a magazine. Are you quite famous?

Infamous maybe but not famous mate… :love:
April 22, 2007 at 8:13 pm

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:weee:
April 22, 2007 at 8:58 pm

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Raj

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Yuuuuk :yakk::yakk:

Thats appallingly irresponsible of them :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy

They should have had people out on the beaches telling the public about the hazard – definetely failing in their duty to the public :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy
April 22, 2007 at 9:00 pm

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Acidfairy

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Raj wrote:

They should have had people out on the beaches telling the public about the hazard – definetely failing in their duty to the public :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy

They did… Today… 2 days after it happened… :you_crazy:you_crazy
April 22, 2007 at 9:01 pm

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Raj

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Words fail me :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy

Lets hope no one gets really sick :crazy:
April 23, 2007 at 10:01 am

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Raj

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bbc.co.uk wrote:

Sewage has finally stopped pouring into the Firth of Forth two-and-a-half days after a pumping station failure.

Scottish Water said the discharge was halted by emergency pumps that had been installed at the Seafield plant in Leith over the weekend.

The temporary pumps will remain in place until a full repair of the fault is carried out.

Scottish Water has apologised for the “catastrophic failure” that allowed millions of litres of sewage to escape.

As much as 100 million litres of partially diluted sewage, enough to fill 170 Olympic-sized swimming pools, may have been discharged after the pump failure on Friday afternoon.

The sewage had been pumping into the Forth at the rate of up to 1,000 litres a second.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6582293.stm
April 23, 2007 at 10:37 am

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General Lighting

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Doesn’t surprise me, since the water companies got privatised there has been less investment in infrastructure…

What is worrying is that (especially in these days when the country is supposed to be “prepared for emergencies”) there seemed to be no effective warning system.

Surely with an incident of this nature everyone from the water company, SEPA and HM Coastguard should have worked together to do a better job of warning people? They should all have weekend staff on duty and with all the advanced communication equipment available there is no excuse for being so slow.. :you_crazy
April 23, 2007 at 11:09 am

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Raj

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:rant:
Guess the reasons may be
a-people were expected to not notice or be using the beach in warm, weather :you_crazy
b- residents were not expected to complain :you_crazy
c-they hoped to resolve the issue faster than they did and so did not want to advertise their failure so kept it low key and are now covered in rotten eggs :egg:
d-the local residents were not politically relevant to the privatised companies…[after all this plant has been a source of appalling stenches for years now and they have got away with it until now]
:rant:

/me gets back in the box
April 23, 2007 at 11:35 am

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General Lighting

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Raj wrote:

:rant:

d-the local residents were not politically relevant to the privatised companies…[after all this plant has been a source of appalling stenches for years now and they have got away with it until now]
:rant:

just read that the plant was run by Thames Water- TBH they are just as bad on their “home turf”. Anglian isn’t much better, there are times when I have nearly fallen from my bicycle in summer due to the malodorous drains in some area… (it is not easy to steer and hold your nose at the same time)
April 23, 2007 at 11:42 am

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Raj

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I can remember Seafield plant smelling bad in the early eighties :you_crazy:you_crazy and it has only gotten worse since then….:hopeless:
April 23, 2007 at 11:51 am

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Acidfairy

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It totally stinks… the smell is awful when you pass it, and its worse in good weather…
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