From Shepherd's Bush blog:
Figures released today by the Environment Agency have revealed record amounts of poo being disgorged into the Thames as a result of the rainiest November in years. I can't reproduce the entire table here because it's a cumbersome spreadsheet but the key result for us is that a record 12.75 million cubic metres of untreated sewage flowed into the Thames during last month.
I can confirm this statistic. That's because the Lib Dems have just sent me the spread sheet. This also shows November's, er, outflow dwarfed the previous largest for the year, February's 8.5 million cms. Honk honk. Shepherd's Bush Chris continues:
That [12.75] in volume terms is the equivalent of 3401 Olympic size swimming pools, or 129 Albert Halls.
I cannot confirm this statistic. That is because I don't know the volume of an Olympic size swimming pool or the Albert Hall, and even if I did one of my kids has "borrowed" my calculator. However, I'm not disputing the following;
That's a lot of poo.
Now read on.
