These trickles on Hampstead Heath are a long way from what the Fleet becomes, but they remind us that London was a city defined by its rivers.
4/4

Further down, there are just hints that the Fleet used flowed here. Street names or bends in the road.
The once pastoral scene at St Pancras Old Church now has asphalt instead of water.
3/4

At Kenwood House you do get the sense that you are looking down a wide river valley.
The dips and hollows give the headwaters somewhere to gather.
2/4

We'll be talking too.
Other issues:
How does London’s sewage system work and what difference will the super sewer make?
Why is London's sewage system is in crisis and what is this doing to our rivers and waterways?
How we can all help in our own homes and gardens?

Brent Lodge Park sewer overflow was featured in the C4 doc as we knew it spilled but didn't appear in the records.
C4 also revealed that Northumbrian Water had 61 unconsented sewers. Severn Trent 420. Are they on the WaterUK map? Local groups could ask their water company
4. End

We discovered that in London there were almost double the number of sewer overflows that the regulator & public hadn't been told about. Unmonitored & no permits.
We pressed Thames Water & they appeared on the map in Dec 2023.
www.londonwaterkeeper.org.uk/newsletter-d...
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We pushed Thames Water to put sewer spills online, in real-time first, in 2017.
We cited the Env Info Regs 2004 that legally required it, almost having to take them to court before they sensibly committed to displaying them (nearly 2 yrs ago). But this wasn't the whole story...
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Whether we call it making London a Sponge City, it boils down to reversing the paving over of so many small green spaces.
BBC News - London flooding: Should the capital become a 'sponge city'? - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not inserting this clause into the Water Industry Act 1991 leaves the law weaker.
Doing it would be an easy win for the new Government.
Rather than loopholes we need greater control of water companies.