#SaveTeddingtonThames

Its time to complete the Consultation from Thames Water. Please go here for further information to access and respond.  

• Make Your Voice Heard - 10:45am, Saturday 28 June
  🚨💥A reminder about Save Our Lands and River’s event this weekend. 
• 🙏🏼🤓Join us at Burnell Ave Green Space (KT2 5RA) to tell the Government we want to Stop the Thames Sewage Pump 💩🌊

Thames Water has outlined a scheme that would involve draining up to 75 million litres of water a day from the Thames some 350 metres upstream of Teddington Weir.  This water would be transferred via an existing underground tunnel to the Lee Valley reservoirs in North London and replaced with treated effluent from the Mogden sewage works, which would be transported some 15km through a new pipeline to Teddington.

Full details of TW Plans and also media coverage in the links below

Our concerns

• Fears for the impact on river life, fish, insects and plants, because it may impact the biodiversity of the river including changes in the water temperature, oxygen levels and its chemical make-up.

• A 3.5 year construction having a devastating effect on a much-loved part of the river, its bank and the surrounding areas in Ham, Teddington and Richmond including

  • digging 8 large shafts on Ham Lands and in Twickenham, each requiring a construction site the size of half a football pitch,
  • creation of a construction compound and access roads likely to occupy most of the field at Burnell Avenue in Ham and a large part of the North Kingston and Ham Lands Designated Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation and public amenity areas.
  • construction of a structure along the riverbank equal to 4 cars in length, over 5m in height and extending up to 5 metres into the river.
• The long-term destruction or dislocation of large areas of Ham Lands, which are home to a wide diversity of plants and animals, including numerous rare species that are hard to find in London.
• Thames Water claim this proposal will be safe as they are regulated.  We are worried that although fines may be imposed for breach, this is not enough to protect our river. 
• Thames Water has repeatedly put profits and shareholders ahead of customers and environment; they were fined £51 Million last October for “missed targets” according to Ofwat. 
• Thames Water were given just 2 out of 5 stars by Environment Agency in 2021 for record sewage discharge and pollution to the Thames. 

How can you help?

• Subscribe to the SOLAR newsletter or go to the SOLAR website for more information.

• Donate to the ‘Save Our Lands and River’ campaign on their ‘GoFundMe page’.  Please note that the donations to Change.Org below do not go to this campaign (they fund only the promotion of the petition).

• Join their Facebook group [LINK] and follow them on Twitter [LINK]

• Keep your neighbours informed via digital groups (email/WhatsApp/Facebook)