A river looking for its rights. Join and help find them: savethedeben@gmail.com
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26 Apr 2023
Woodbridge is re-applying for designated bathing status for more of the River Deben.
Our official consultation was kickstarted April 22, continuing to end Sept 2023. Some key dates and contacts below
Save the dates, please ( & do please rt) #dbw #waterquality #riverdeben #deben
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18 Jun 2023
What pests we are
18 Jun 2023
"Water chief blames wild swimmers and canoeists for highlighting sewage scandal."
See, if only you'd all mind your own bloody business, stop swimming, canoeing, fishing and in fact being anywhere near a river none of this would have happened.
GOT THAT!
msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/wa…
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
18 Jun 2023
Ben Mallet in braces has just been awarded OBE in Johnson Honours List #PartygateVideo CCHQ #Gove
Mallet works for @TheMessinaGroup
Messina Group says it's trusted by world leaders!!!
Let's advise CEO Jim @Messina2012 what the UK thinks about Mallet?
Write yr thoughts here? RT
And you @MozForMayor Moz Hussein..he's running yr campaign for London Mayor, what are your thoughts?
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18 Jun 2023
This is REALLY not ok
17 Jun 2023
This is really not OK… I mean really, really not ok…
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
26 Oct 2022
EU plans tighter controls on pollution as doctors call for urgent action theguardian.com/world/2022/o…
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18 Sep 2022
Another brilliantly organised @AldeTriathlon community event - 89 teams - @Fx_Swimscapes 4th overall with tremendous sub-20 5k run by my boy 💪💙
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
10 May 2023
Suella Braverman keeps repeating that the Rwanda scheme etc is the “will of the British people”
If, like me, you’re British, & this is not your “will” let her know by retweeting this please.
We deserve to be heard
#RwandaNotInMyName
@SuellaBraverman
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21 May 2023
92.9% bathing waters good/excellent 2022 Dr C, but nothing on our rivers. Jumped through the hoops for bathing water status, but 2023 swim season evidence of improvement to our rivers - 0%! Is bathing water status a red herring that allows Defra to fiddle while our rivers churn!
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
17 May 2023
Very sensible. Less likely to get stuck in the mud in event of putting one’s feet down! Dinghy sailed and did 2 years rescue boat there. I keep warning folk swimming about the Deben. It’s taken a number of lives of folk I knew.
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30 Apr 2023
Yes I spoke with her yesterday in Woodbridge. She told me that she visited Creek Farm stw. Also that AW intend to install further sanitisation at the works not UV but something cheaper. I thanked her for her time. Could have spent all day talking about our rivers and seas.
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9 May 2023
you know how well Hong Kong protesters used umberellas to defy the Chinese backed police 🌀☀️⛈️☂️ @mrjamesob @OwenJones84 #met
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
5 May 2023
Over a year since #Woodbridge residents were were raising concerns about #riverDeben #waterquality. Seemingly to the sound of silence (except our own voices)
What a lot has happened since!
Inc local election results that suggest our concerns were justified
#LibDems #Green
23 Apr 2022
And on we go.
Next step bathing certification. Imagine, people have lived, worked and by the Deben for 8000 years, but the EA doesn't test the waterbecause it doesn't have "designated bathing status." I kid you not
@SaveDeben #cleanwater #Rivershaverights #NoPooInDeben
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2 May 2023
What a contrast.
Paris spends €1bn to clean up the Seine so people can go swimming in it while last year alone @thameswater spent 7,000 hours dumping sewage into 31 of London's rivers all of which ends up in the Thames.
Ho hum.
2 May 2023
Beyond the doom and gloom, great to see le Parisien splashing on swimming in the Seine today. More than €1billion spent on making it happen.
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29 Apr 2023
A fun *flush mob* singing sewage songs down #Woodbridge Thoroughfare this morning with Dirty Water Campaigners. Members of the public were unsurprisingly unanimously supportive of the campaign, joined in, applauded & were angry with @theresecoffey & her excuses.
@WaterWaysProtct
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
29 Apr 2023
There's something wonderfully karmic about Environment Minister Therese Coffey having some of the most effective anti-sewage campaigners in her constituency. Their work has made national news several times (and, of course, features regularly in @BylinesEast).
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26 Apr 2023
Achieving good water quality means more than going though the motions!
#LibDem Kay Yule is standard-bearer for #SaveDeben's river Deben water-quality campaign in Woodbridge
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22 Apr 2023
Great interest in our official resubmission of @SaveDeben's 2nd #Woodbridge Designated Bathing Status application, opened at our #EarthDay stall today.
I brought a tray of fossils & ancient artefacts I've found on #Deben riverbanks over the years.
It been a home for millennia
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SaveTheDeben retweeted
17 Apr 2023
I’m in the latest episode of the Spaceship Earth podcast having a wide-ranging conversation on what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate & ecological crisis, Rights of Nature, river guardianship, making nature sacred again & more. Do have a listen! thespaceship.earth/podcast/2…
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