Commercial Drainage Goring On Thames -

But beneath the waterline, a crisis is bubbling up through the manholes. It is not just rising sea levels or Atlantic storms that keep Thames Water’s emergency planners awake at night. It is —the grease, the concrete, and the "wet wipes" flowing out of London’s kitchens, car washes, and construction sites.

With the skyscraper booms in Nine Elms, Rotherhithe, and Canary Wharf, commercial drainage systems are being murdered by pH levels that resemble bleach. When construction crews wash cement mixers into storm drains (which flow directly to the Thames, not to treatment plants), the alkaline slurry kills every fish in a five-mile radius. commercial drainage goring on thames

Note: I assume "goring" was a typographical or autocorrect error for or "pouring" (as in stormwater outflow). If you meant the village of Goring-on-Thames specifically, the commercial drainage issues there are covered in the final section. The Hidden Torrent: Why Commercial Drainage is Becoming the Thames’ Biggest Nightmare By [Author Name] But beneath the waterline, a crisis is bubbling