Toxic spill in river kills fish

sent to me by Doug last night

Toxic spill in river kills fish

At least 2,000 fish died in the spillage
Thousands of fish have died in River Wandle in south London after a toxic spillage entered the river.
The Environment Agency has begun an inquiry into the incident which killed at least 2,000 fish along a 5km stretch of the river.
Local residents called up the agency and reported seeing fish floating on the surface between Beddington in Croydon and Merton on Monday.

Officers are trying to ascertain how many fish survived the spill.

The dead fish included barbel, chub and eels.


see link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7006540.stm

Only just seen this, some heads should roll for this,even if its an accident.
If it occured in the middle of oxford street and 2000 people were killed,Im sure the response would be substancially greater,Just because its a river doesn't mean its any less important an area.
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unfortunately this is the by product of how we live and still use Victorian drains...

we have suffered a lot worse and normally just after a heavy down pour where the raw sewage mixes in the storm drains and straight into the rivers...

not good news that guys ,like tim says heads should roll somewhere , weather it gets tracked down to who is to blame is a different matter,but occassions like this would make you feel like the money you pay for your rod licence is helping the ea fund the investigation into finding the culprits

did this sort of thing not happen last year on the wandle aswell, if i remember correctly.