Nature-based solutions to sewage dumping on the North Kent Coast

基于自然的北肯特海岸污水倾倒解决方案

• 批准号: AH/Y00065X/1
• 负责人: Ricky Burdett
• 金额: $ 4.04万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY00065X%2F1
• 关键词: Nature; based; solutions; sewage; dumping

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. It will have a significant and permanent impact on the water cycle. This in turn has serious implications for the long-term sustainability of the water and sewerage sectors in England and Wales.Throughout the whole of 2021, Southern Water discharged raw sewage into waterways for more than 160,000 hours, with the average spill lasting 8.4 hours, according to Environment Agency data. Southern Water was fined £ 90 million last year for knowingly and deliberately dumping raw sewage off the south coast between the years 2010 and 2015. The company has vowed to change its ways, but many areas in the UK are still experiencing sewage dumping into rivers and the sea. This project explores the significance, impacts and implications of alternative wastewater systems in the context of the sewage dumping crisis in UK coastal communities. It investigates and proposes alternative well-designed, community-based, public infrastructure and guiding principles for local government decision-makers.The project will undertake two phases: the first is a diagnostic survey of the current situation (which remains unclear with a lot of information held behind request forms) of the entire North Kent Coast following the Saxon Shore Way. The second phase will explore design-led propositions to tackle the twin problem of too much water entering the sewer network and sewage discharging into the sea. The project is community-based and centred on a partnership with local activists, SOS Whitstable. The primary aim of the project is to consider the significance of the impacts and implications of alternative wastewater systems in the context of an existing Victorian sewage system at breaking point. It will investigate how the current situation is, propose how improvements would and could manifest in different contexts and locations and conclude by suggesting a range of designs and guiding principles for local government decision-makers. The outcomes would also serve as tools for local groups to engage with Southern Water and other stakeholders driving conversations towards tangible ways forward, and alternatives to costly large-scale, high-tech upgrades. The aim is to gain a better understanding of how events that stress the water network manifest, in order to give water companies alternative local solutions to reduce the impact on infrastructure. This will require bringing local people on that journey. Encouraging more gardens, sustainable drainage and designing civic infrastructures that simultaneously reduce the water load of our infrastructure networks through alternative decentralized sewage solutions for necessary overflows and doing so through connected, well-designed public infrastructures - green space, walkways, public parks, tidal pools, and so on. Communities up and down the UK are united in outrage, voicing their rage at the scale with which raw sewage is seeping into our waterways. Wastewater systems provide a critical service to society, and their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change places the health and sanitation of many communities at risk.

气候变化是我们这个时代最大的挑战之一。它将对水循环产生重大而持久的影响。根据环境署的数据，在整个2021年，Southern Water向水道排放未经处理的污水超过160，000小时，平均泄漏持续8. 4小时。去年，南方水务公司因在2010年至2015年期间故意向南海岸倾倒未经处理的污水而被罚款9000万英镑。该公司发誓要改变其方式，但英国许多地区仍在经历污水倾倒到河流和海洋中。该项目探讨了英国沿海社区污水倾倒危机背景下替代废水系统的意义、影响和意义。该项目将分两个阶段进行：第一阶段是对沿撒克逊海岸路的整个北肯特海岸的现状进行诊断性调查（由于申请表中有大量信息，现状仍不清楚）。第二阶段将探讨以设计为主导的方案，以解决过多的水进入下水道网络和污水排放入海的双重问题。该项目以社区为基础，以与当地活动家SOS惠特斯泰布尔的伙伴关系为中心。该项目的主要目的是考虑在现有维多利亚州污水系统处于临界点的背景下，替代污水系统的影响和影响的重要性。它将调查目前的情况，提出在不同的情况和地点如何能够取得改进，并最后为地方政府决策者提出一系列设计和指导原则。这些成果还将作为当地团体与南方水务公司和其他利益攸关方接触的工具，推动对话朝着切实可行的方向前进，并取代昂贵的大规模高科技升级。其目的是更好地了解对供水网络造成压力的事件是如何表现的，以便为供水公司提供替代的当地解决方案，以减少对基础设施的影响。这需要让当地人参与这一旅程。鼓励更多的花园，可持续的排水系统和设计市政基础设施，同时通过替代分散的污水解决方案减少我们基础设施网络的水负荷，以避免必要的溢出，并通过连接，精心设计的公共基础设施-绿色空间，人行道，公共公园，潮汐池等来做到这一点。英国上下的社区都在愤怒中团结起来，他们对未经处理的污水大量渗入我们的水道表示愤怒。废水处理系统为社会提供了一项重要服务，而其易受气候变化影响的脆弱性使许多社区的健康和卫生面临风险。