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Affinity water - save our streams

The French connection, tankers going abroad with our Colne aquifer water was a rumour for a very long time Paul. I managed to collar some Affinity workers at Colnecan 2019 about the West Hyde aquifer and one mentioned Eden spring. If you go on their website they are the company taking massive amounts of the Colne water from the chalk Aquifer at West Hyde under the Affinity water license. The Tankers go to Eden Spring to supply offices all over the UK with the big bottles on chillers. They also sell the water in normal bottles. The EA, Affinity water and Eden spring are all taking the Pee. They are taking and selling all our quality water from the chalk aquifer and running the chess and Colne on stupid amounts of raw and treated sewage
 
Never knew that water companies were extracting water for bottling. Unreal. More people need to know about this.
 
Not sure how it works Joe but West Hyde is an Affinity site and the water goes to Eden spring. Eden springs list West Hyde as one of their two sources on their website. Affinity water is now seeking to increase the water under its abstraction license to mitigate HS2 work. After complaints that the Chess has been drying up and MP 's etc getting involved Affinity will in future stop abstracting from the Chess boreholes . They now want to increase abstraction over their 3 sites including West Hyde. We are talking about over 32 billion cubic metres a year so vast amounts. But are we talking about Affinity selling even more water from the West Hyde borehole to Eden springs or is it for the water supply to homes. As Ray Walton once said water is Blue Gold.
 
Got a call late Tuesday night our club offered to lend pumps to the Fisheries Angling club. The sewage main near West Hyde got blocked and had burst a few days before. The main had apparently blocked all the way to Amersham around 6 miles. Thames water were pumping the sewage into tankers and taking it to Maple Lodge a short distance away. On Tuesday they decided to allow it to run into the Fisheries lake. A large number of pumps were employed which seems to have done the job and saved the day. HS2 were due to pump their drilling waste water into that very area at West Hyde. This is the second time a disaster has struck a local area involved with HS2. Four years ago Harrow's Pit 3 suffered a total fish kill shortly before HS2 arrived to start work. Fishy or what ?.
 
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