Raw sewage discharge at Crankley Point STW Newark upon Trent.

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Dear Severn Trent Plc,

I'd like to request environmental information under the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) in regards to emissions and discharges (e.g. noise, energy, radiation, waste materials) at Crankley Point STW Newark upon Trent.

1. How many discharges of raw sewage in to the River Trent have taken place from January 1st 2016 to December 1st 2019?

2. The volume of raw sewage discharge in to the River Trent from January 1st 2016 to December 1st 2019?

3. Reasons for the raw sewage discharge

Yours faithfully,

Mr L Yarnell

CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

ST Classification: OFFICIAL PERSONAL

 

Dear Mr Yarnell,

 

Thank you for your contact on the 10^th January. We confirm receipt. We
are examining your request under the Environmental Information Regulations
2004 act, which requires a response from us in 20 working days.

 

Kind Regards

 

Liz Walker

Group Investigation and Casework Manager

Group Compliance and Assurance

7 South, Severn Trent Centre

( [mobile number]

* Email: [1][email address]

 

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CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

ST Classification: OFFICIAL PERSONAL

 

Dear Mr Yarnell,

 

I wanted to provide an update. Our response is still going through
governance and assurance processes therefore, I’m giving notice that we
require a 20 day extension under the Environmental Information Regulations
2004 act.

 

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

 

Kind Regards

 

Liz Walker

Group Investigation and Casework Manager

Group Compliance and Assurance

7 South, Severn Trent Centre

( [mobile number]

* Email: [1][email address]

 

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Dear CustomerEIR,

By law, Severn Trent should normally have responded promptly and by 5 February 2021, however I'm willing to wait untill 5th March 2021 for the information I requested.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Yarnell

CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

ST Classification: OFFICIAL COMMERCIAL

Dear Mr L Yarnell,

 

Thank you for your request for information at Crankley Point STW and
please accept my apologies again for the delay. Over the last few years we
have been installing monitors called ‘Event Duration Monitors’ (EDMs) at
our storm overflow locations including the Crankley Point STW site.

 

Crankley Point STW’s monitor was only installed and set to live in 2020.
Therefore we do not have any verified data available for 2016 to 2019. To
help you we have provided the 2020 data that has been recently supplied to
the EA. As these monitors are only spill event and duration monitors we
cannot give any volume. In terms of reason for discharge, these spills
will be due to rainfall induced flow.

 

Water Site Name Permit No. Total Counted % of First
Company Duration spills reporting Reporting
Name (hours) of using period EDM Year
all spills 12-24hr operational
prior to counting
processing method
through
12-24 hour
counting
method
Severn CRANKLEY T/68/45770/R 51.6 9 100.00% 2020
Trent POINT
Water (STW)

 

Kind Regards

 

Liz Walker

Group Investigation and Casework Manager

Group Compliance and Assurance

7 South, Severn Trent Centre

( [mobile number]

* Email: [1][email address]

 

 

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Dear CustomerEIR,

Please clarify the "spill event data"

Please forward the raw sewage discharge frequency from the 1st January 2020 to the 1st January 2021

Yours sincerely,

Lee Yarnell

CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

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Dear Mr Yarnell,

Please accept my apologies that the table lost its formatting when I sent our last response. I've attached a PDF version, which is clearer.

Kind Regards

Liz Walker
Group Investigation and Casework Manager
Group Compliance and Assurance
7 South, Severn Trent Centre
77[mobile number]Email: [email address]

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Dear CustomerEIR,

Just to clarify in the simplistic terms is the following statement correct,

In the period of 1st January 2020 to 1st January 2021 Crankley Point discharged raw sewage for 51.6 hours over 9 spill events.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Yarnell

CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

ST Classification: OFFICIAL PERSONAL

Good afternoon Mr Yarnell,

I have received the following clarification from the team:

"As this is the first year of reporting for this site, the time period is from the 1st April 2020 to the 31st December 2020. As such this data is 51.6 hours over 9 spill events between April - Dec 2020.

Going forward from 2021 onwards, we will report on a full calendar year basis."

Kind Regards

Liz Walker
Group Investigation and Casework Manager
Group Compliance and Assurance
7 South, Severn Trent Centre
77[mobile number]Email: [email address]

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Dear CustomerEIR,

Can you please confirm the volume in Litres for the 51.6 hours of Discharge?

Yours sincerely,

Lee Yarnell

CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

ST Classification: OFFICIAL PERSONAL

Dear Mr Yarnell,

Our monitors only record duration of spill. As a result, we do not have volume data available.

Kind Regards

Liz Walker
Group Investigation and Casework Manager
Group Compliance and Assurance
7 South, Severn Trent Centre
77[mobile number]Email: [email address]

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Dear CustomerEIR,

Can you please confirm the dates of the 9 incidents?

Yours sincerely,

Lee Yarnell

CustomerEIR, Severn Trent Plc

ST Classification: UNMARKED

 

Dear Mr Yarnell,

 

In response to your enquiry - the 9 incident dates are as follows.

 

Reporting Year Permit Number Time stamp Start Time stamp End
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 18/06/2020 19/06/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 25/07/2020 26/07/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 16/08/2020 17/08/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 28/08/2020 29/08/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 24/10/2020 25/10/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 04/12/2020 05/12/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 23/12/2020 23/12/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 23/12/2020 24/12/2020
2020 T/68/45770/R-A2 27/12/2020 27/12/2020

 

I trust this completes the request

 

Regards

 

 

Jo McClansburgh

Reporting & Compliance

Group Compliance & Assurance

 

 

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