Campsite fined for untreated water (1 Viewer)

[Bustup15]

Northumberland campsite fined over untreated drinking water

The operator of Budle Farm Campsite was fined £1,470 as the site did not comply

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

 

[Janine]

Good that the Environmental Health team kept on top of checking it.

I do wonder sometimes about the quality of water when we are at the big shows, where it is piped across several fields to a nearby tap and maybe left stagnant for months.

 

[Lenny HB]

Good that the Environmental Health team kept on top of checking it.

I do wonder sometimes about the quality of water when we are at the big shows, where it is piped across several fields to a nearby tap and maybe left stagnant for months.

Arrive with a full tank then by the time you need water it will have been well flushed through.

 

[Jim]

Ecoli is endemic in most wells and boreholes in England and Wales. When we lived in Wales with our own water supply we would have the council test it every year. One year it would be good the next year it would not. We installed a double UV filtration setup, it was the only way you could be sure that if you were drinking ecoli, they were harmess and dead

 

[The Wino]

I recon if had the original warning and failed to comply it hard to have any sympathy for him. Presumably they had their original water supply to save money I suspect it wasn't reflected in reduced pitch fees

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[Jim]

I recon if had the original warning and failed to comply it hard to have any sympathy for him.

Can't imagine anyone thinking that the fine was too high

 

[Brains]

Some years ago, my uncle who has the large family farm on the edge of Bodmin Moor decided to branch into the expensive spa water in a bottle market.

The farm has a spring that has been used by all members of the family since the 1100's, and as far as we know no one has died of Typhus or Cholera in the last 900 years that the family have been in occupation.

So he got all the quotes for the bottling plant, worked out the logo and labels, found distributors, the EA insisted on doing a test of purity, which as the water comes straight out of the ground was not a problem.

The report came back.
Unfit for human consumption.
Pollutants included cow dung and mine runoff.
Shut off all access to the farm with immediate effect.

So that was the end of the Bottled water plant and his dreams of millions ....

The local water company were told to plumb in the farm (over a mile from the nearest water main) as fast as possible.
They laid a main along the surface of the access road the next day! and then entrenched it over the next two weeks, all free of charge.

 

[dunnah01]

Never drunk a drop from our tank in over 4 years full timing. Beer exists for a reason

 

[Spriddler]

When wild tenting 50 years ago - New Forest, Dartmoor, the Dales etc. we always used water from becks and streams although it was always boiled first. In some areas in West Cornwall there were signs warning of residual arsenic from old (tin?) mining operations. I wouldn't use stream water nowadays due intensive farming, field run-off and sewage overspills. I stopped walking the dog near a battery chicken egg farm across from my house as the ground and ditches reeked from the syrupy disgusting creosote coloured liquid that drained permanently from the barns.

 

[pappajohn]

£1470 fine.......that's put the pitch price up.
He certainly wont be paying it from his own pocket.
Maybe a few weeks in prison would make him think.

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[Jimbohorlicks]

Northumberland campsite fined over untreated drinking water

The operator of Budle Farm Campsite was fined £1,470 as the site did not comply

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

If he couldn't be bothered to even put up signs , basically advising not to drink the water he deserves a much higher fine than that.

 

[Just smiffy]

Some years ago, my uncle who has the large family farm on the edge of Bodmin Moor decided to branch into the expensive spa water in a bottle market.

The farm has a spring that has been used by all members of the family since the 1100's, and as far as we know no one has died of Typhus or Cholera in the last 900 years that the family have been in occupation.

So he got all the quotes for the bottling plant, worked out the logo and labels, found distributors, the EA insisted on doing a test of purity, which as the water comes straight out of the ground was not a problem.

The report came back.
Unfit for human consumption.
Pollutants included cow dung and mine runoff.
Shut off all access to the farm with immediate effect.

So that was the end of the Bottled water plant and his dreams of millions ....

The local water company were told to plumb in the farm (over a mile from the nearest water main) as fast as possible.
They laid a main along the surface of the access road the next day! and then entrenched it over the next two weeks, all free of charge.

They’re made of stern stuff the people of Bodmin moor…

 

[RobbyMClark]

Stayed in a cottage in Honiton Devon many moons ago the tap water was all brown even after running for awhile mentioned it to the landlord/farmer "Oh that's cause its from the tank fed by the stream, its alright when it boiled"
Bottle water to drink - daily swim and shower at nearest sports centre after that.!!

 

[bigwood]

We mostly use pub stops in the winter but for a change we stayed on a site. When we filled the water tank the water tasted acrid. I mentioned this to the site office. They said I should have used the tap at reception not the ones on the site because they hadn’t been flushed after the winter shut down.
It took a lot of flushing and filling to clear the problem and the site did pay for a bottle of flushing fluid. I admit my sense of taste isn’t as good as it should be but that was a lesson learnt.