Sewage pumping station overflow

[ericmurray]

Hey mate, you dont seem to be having much luck this season.
I hope that things start look up soon.
Keep up the videos, they are really entertaining.
Have a good one

[Cotlandfarmer]

If that was you or I polluting like that we'd be straight to court! I hope for the good of your livestock they sort that mess out!

[AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

I wouldn't have that! As you said, farmers will get the blame for the pollution. Plus it contiminates your field and waterway. I'd give them a ring. Anyway, watched a few video's and I subscribed! Thanks for having me! 😅Grtz from the netherlands

[dashcamdude]

You can see the water coming up is the pumping station on your land if you put a drop of slurry into the river you be in court the next day

[emmataylor]

If a farm caused even just a small percentage of this sewage in the stream the farmer would be hung drawn and quartered. Disgusting that you have to put up with it on your land, and bear the burden of any loss of income. Good for you for filming it.

[SpaceCowby]

You should build a berm around the pumping station and 'encourage' the overflow to run down the road...

[patrickmorgan]

The other side of this is that grass will be head high in a month.

[beverlykamps]

Richard, you have contacts with television stations per prior videos. Contact them to come out and film and let the public know what is going on. Hopefully, pressure from the citizens will get this mess cleaned up.

[hobouk]

I know this might sound a bit drastic but couldnt you hire a digger or someone who will use a digger for you to dig a drainage ditch to direct it streight into the brook. I know that would not do the brook much good but it will be better than having a field flooded with it.

[caithnessrailrambler]

I cant believe with my own eyes what I am seeing. that's bad that. and they talk about farmers polluting the water burns eta but this is taking the complete piss. mate I really hope you get this sorted out. keep on updating us by vid ;)

[DesertNails]

Oh ick! Sorry you're having to deal with this. Go get'em!

[redspud]

Havent you enough of water around the place instead of the sewage pump driving stuff up out into your fields

[hutchy]

Sadly its an all to common occurrence for many old combined sewage systems where these combines sewer overflows (CSOs) occur after extreme rain events. I'm a farmers son and currently a civil engineering student and see both sides of the coin. Generally most water boards or authorities have a set target of maximum CSO events per year after which they receive fines. The reason is that old systems often cant cope with the volume of water from sewage waste and storm water runoff together as they were originally intended and essentially to solve this they use to allow it to discharge anywhere when they were originally installed. Most companies over recent decades have had increasing pressure to reduce these CSO events to reduce the environmental impact and many have made good progress, though there is still a long way to go. Sadly it is a hugely expensive process to replace or upgrade these systems to new separated sewers where storm water and sewage are kept separate. Most of these companies don't have the resources (both monitory, time, labour or engineers) to overcome these in a short timescale so they have to do it on a rolling program of upgrades. Because of this the largest, most prominent or severe cases tend to be amended first and so little stations like this are left for decades. Sadly it wont change any time soon despite the huge progress that has been made since the 90s. Climate change is also a huge contributor to the problem as these more frequent and intense events causes a greater number of CSOs and only make the problem worse. Lack of investment in infrastructure and long term planning 30/40 years ago has really hit the country hard and it will take many decades before the problems only close to being fixed. I hope that this incident is resolved swiftly both for your sake and as the severity of untreated sewage in such concentration to that small water course could have major consequences if this is a regular event occurring more than once a year.

[peteb]

Looks to me like there was a pump sat up on top of the wet well. Was the pump station down to 1 pump and couldn’t cope with the flow

[joehogg]

Have the feilds dryed out for any more fert or muck?

[darrenbrown-alternativerou]

This is shocking its madness that farmers have to put up with so much neesh on there land feel for you mate plough on me old boy !

[rmack]

I noticed a lot saying why does this happen, well I think the reason is that people don't give a rat's bum until something this happens and then they complain. Folks should stay involved so that councils and the various authority do not get a chance to let things like this happen which is generally caused by lacksadaisical maintence.

[grahamroberts]

Get in touch with the Environment agency

[lindenbergers]

That is really horrifying! Will you get compensated? It's ruining your lovely field :(

[HughzieTube]

Could you not dig a ditch around the pumping station and use the spoil to build a burn next to the ditch just so the sewage stays in one area rather than washing across the field?
That or a Swale across to the stream just so it minimises the contamination of your cows feed.