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Petition · past parliament · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ban ‘permitted discharge’ of foul water into rivers

Closed 4,390 signatures

What the petition asks

Stop utility companies from being able to discharge foul water into the rivers, other than in the infrequent times of heavy rainstorms.
Utility companies are depositing more and more raw sewerage into UK rivers. Utility companies should have to upgrade/replace these pumping stations to accommodate the increase in connections from developments and ensure their modelling of the foul network has an allowance for misconnected surface water connection.

Timeline

11 Sep 2020 Petition opened for signatures
11 Mar 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 4,390
Status Closed
Department Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Opened 11 Sep 2020
Closed 11 Mar 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.