All too often Harting is discharging untreated effluent (that is, untreated except for coming through filters for solids down to 6mm square, plus some amount of settlement that might occurs while this effluent is in the storm tank). That then goes into the very small Elstead Stream.

Although they filmed ERA Chair, Veronica Carter, for about 20 minutes it got edited down to something much less. We were provided with the proposed questions beforehand and considerable thought went into how to best answer those questions, so we thought it worth publishing those questions and our prepared answers as a blog, which serves to tell the story of where we are up to with our E.coli testing of our local waterways.