06/06/2022
Constipated Bureaucracy
Causes Cornwalls largest on going Pollution incident.
300 ton per day since the 25th May 2022 of septic tank contents are
Going to sea.
E.A. Officer Mark Pilcher changed waste code on septic tank contents.
This rise in incoming load caused a rise in discharge load of 100 ppm or 100 cm cube per meter cube.
When asked by Brian Matthews ,”Have you raised the discharge level by 100 ppm, Mark Pilcher “ No , where did you hear that”
With in 2 hours Louise Leader had an email confirmation of the rise of
100cm cube from water company, (email attached)
Cornwall recycles approximately 300 ton per day of septic tank contents, by four farmers on eight S3 registered sites. Under “The Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Mark Pilcher of the E.A. Effectively changed the post code for septic tank contents to make them go to sea.
This in turn has collapsed a market place circular economy for septic tank contents.Jeopardising several job on farms and two lorry companies have no slot to unload at Hayle STW until July. Jeopardising there jobs also. To make more capacity the water company is opening on Saturday and putting in 75 slots in the middle of the night.
When asked to do a waste hierarchy assessment for septic tank sludge Mark Pilcher refused to do one.
Under a waste hierarchy assessment septic tank contents are qualified as a reuse in agriculture as a natural soil cycle.
Discharge to sea is the lowest ranking objective as is a disposal.
Hayle STW recycles approximately 20% (est 1299 tons ) or 3.6 tons per day as biosolids to agricultural land..This compares to 43% for UK as whole and 95% recovery in the Netherlands.
In Holland ,regulators ,tanker lorry firms ,water company’s and farmers work together and have more common sense than to be at loggerheads over a waste code change, designed to extinguish farm competition .
Hayle STW has a 3 million pound refit coming up ,and has not obligation to take septic tank contents during refit.
Where are the lorries to go,the cost implications of taking septic tank contents to Devon are colossal.
Mark Pilcher when asked who gave the instructions for such a change ? Replied “From the top”
Brian Matthews”George Eustice”, — “Do you meet George Eustice” ?
“From the top “ Mark Pilcher replied,but would not say it was George Eustice”
After meeting Alice Long asked George Eustice’s local secretary and he did not know but commented that George Eustice backs farm recycling.
As my grandmother said “Common sentence is not common”.
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