'Sewage stream' pours into fields near housing estate in Surrey

Footage shows sewage pouring into fields near homes in Surrey.

Transcript

00:00 Back at Hawley Sewage Works, storm tanks are overflowing.

00:05 Down the service track, into the brook here.

00:13 Pouring out into this ditch.

00:16 All of this is from these storm tanks.

00:21 Untreated or barely screened effluent.

00:25 Very close to West Vale.

00:28 Lots of water pouring out of the storm tanks behind there.

00:33 And I mean a lot.

00:35 Across this footpath, just to the left, well under water.

00:40 It's going past.

00:42 The reason why there's bundes here,

00:45 because when it rains, and the river rises to a certain level, the river is out of sight.

00:51 The storm tanks here overflow.

00:54 And untreated sewage effluent pours across the footpath here, that's under water.

01:00 Flows down to recreational fields.

01:04 It's flowing across land, into a ditch.

01:07 All of this is untreated sewage effluent.

01:11 Further downstream of our sewage effluent river.

01:14 Following the footpath now, it comes across this thicket.

01:18 Which it then filters through and drains through into fields.

01:22 Dust over there.

01:25 There's one arm of the sewage stream.

01:28 Coming across these sandbags, which direct the effluent into these fields here.

01:34 Used by children for playing.

01:36 It's a recreational open space, next to West Vale Estate.

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