#environmentagency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #environmentagency, aggregated by home.social.
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GB Grid Monitor: One for the data geeks!
You may know that I recently created an energy and environment dashboard that's available to download on Github.
Over the last week or so I've made some significant upgrades to the dashboard's monitoring and data logging functions. For example, local weather alerts are now enhanced. Rain is tracked nearby and alerts are spoken when rain is due at your location through the use of Environment Agency rain gauges. Mobile "Virtual" rain gauges are deployed to track and confirm incoming rain using Open Meteo and Open Weather Maps APIs. If using a VPN the API limits may be hit very quickly, so try to exclude Python from the VPN by using split-tunneling, or switch off the VPN.
The electricity grid monitoring is enhanced and includes a "system risk index". This monitors system inertia and alerts for when the system is particularly at risk of collapse - the function is calibrated against NESO's own data. Despite official statements, the grid is in a very precarious state at the moment due to rate of decarbonization and the shift to renewables. If the grid frequency moves outside of the statutory limits you hear annoyingly loud alarms (annoying only for your non-geeky other half, that is!)
If a collapse is imminent and the data reaches you before the power goes off, you may get a few seconds' notice before it all goes black.
Data logging is now in place so that historical electricity data can be plotted as 7-day graphs, with data available since 2017 - great for researchers! Frequency plots from upto the last 30 days can be captured to image files via the frequency "history" plot (assuming the app was running to capture the data). Generator plots are back-filled from online archives so can fill in if the app wasn't running.
For the best experience please read the "readme file" before using.
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
By Rachel SalvidgeExclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply
#Water #Oilandgascompanies #Chemicalindustry #Waterindustry #England #EnvironmentAgency #UKnews #Environment #Business #Energyindustry #TheGuardian #RachelSalvidge
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public-water-in-drought-hit-england #Water #OilAndGasCompanies #ChemicalIndustry #WaterIndustry #England #EnvironmentAgency #UkNews #Environment #Business #EnergyIndustry
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‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
By Sandra Laville Environment correspondentCouncil leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
#Water #Housing #Waterindustry #Environment #Housingmarket #Extremeheat #Cambridgeshire #Cambridge #Hampshire #Surrey #Drought #Wetlands #SouthEastWater #NaturalEngland #Climatecrisis #England #EnvironmentAgency #Business #Communities #UKnews #Society #TheGuardian #SandraLavilleEnvironmentcorrespondent
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‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/02/we-cannot-magic-up-more-water-the-supply-problems-putting-housing-targets-in-england-at-risk #Water #Housing #WaterIndustry #Environment #HousingMarket #ExtremeHeat #Cambridgeshire #Cambridge #Hampshire #Surrey #Drought #Wetlands #SouthEastWater #NaturalEngland #ClimateCrisis #England #EnvironmentAgency #Business #Communit...
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River close to engulfing waste mountain, MP warns
Marcus White and Jamie Morris, November 17, 2025
"A river is rising and threatening to engulf a mountain of fly-tipped waste in a field, an MP has warned.
"After heavy rain over the weekend, the River Cherwell is now lapping against the 'obscene' 150m (490ft) long pile near Kidlington in Oxfordshire, Calum Miller told the House of Commons.
"The Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock said the situation had become 'much more urgent' and asked the government to intervene.
"Environment Minister Emma Hardy said the Environment Agency was investigating and had acted to prevent further access to the site.
"Fly-tippers are thought to have spent weeks building up the mound in a field between the river and the A34.
"The Oxfordshire MP said it had reached a height of up to 12m (39ft).
"Asking a Urgent Question in the House of Commons, he said the river level had risen by about 4ft (1.2m) in recent days and some of the waste was now afloat.
"He said: 'This incident highlights that organised criminal gangs are carefully planning operations to dump #IndustrialWaste in the countryside.'
" 'They earn millions of pounds in illegal earnings without a thought for the health of people or animals, nor the damage to soil, water or air. And I am deeply concerned that the #EnvironmentAgency (#EA) is not equipped to deal with this unfolding #EnvironmentalDisaster.'
"Mr Miller said the government should order a clean-up by issuing a directive to the EA, similar to the one given for #HoadesWood in Kent in 2024.
"He also urged ministers to review the government's response to waste crime and allow the National Crime Agency to investigate the most serious cases."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2762y8x4eo
#FlyTipping #UK #Garbage #Pollution #FlyTips #IllegalDumping
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#Sewage dumped illegally in #Windermere over 3 years
by Joe Crowley
October 17, 2024"A water company repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw sewage illegally into one of #ngland's most famous lakes over a three-year period, the BBC can reveal.
"More than 140 million litres of waste were pumped into Windermere between 2021 and 2023 at times when it was not permitted, our analysis shows, and #UnitedUtilities failed to report most of it.
"It means the company's #IllegalDumping of #sewage into the lake went on for far longer, and was far more extensive, than was previously known.
"United Utilities said some of its sewage releases into #Windermere were 'potentially non-compliant' but that it #SelfReports 'over 94% of potential pollution incidents to the #EnvironmentAgency'.
"Matt Staniek, a campaigner against sewage pollution and founder of #SaveWindermere, said Windermere was 'the jewel in the crown of the #LakeDistrict #NationalPark, and it's being used as an open sewer'.
"It is sometimes necessary to release sewage into rivers and lakes to stop the wastewater system from being overwhelmed by #HeavyRain but this #pollution can damage the environment, causing harmful #AlgalBlooms and even killing fish.
"In January this year - after BBC Panorama revealed the company had downplayed the severity of dozens of #pollution incidents, some involving Windermere - United Utilities retrospectively reported some discharges into the lake from October 2023 onwards."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrj70dynk1o#WaterIsLife #SelfReportingCompanies #Crapitalism #FishKill #IllegalDumping #UK
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Top-rated UK water firms ‘dumped 1,374 illegal spills into rivers’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/13/top-rated-uk-water-firms-dumped-1374-spills-into-rivers #EnvironmentAgency #UnitedUtilities #Environment #SevernTrent #Utilities #Pollution #Business #UKnews #Rivers #Water
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Sewage-spilling English water firms could be denied ‘top marks’ in rankings https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/20/sewage-spilling-english-water-firms-denied-top-marks-rankings #Executivepayandbonuses #EnvironmentAgency #UnitedUtilities #Waterindustry #SevernTrent #Environment #Pollution #Utilities #Business #England #UKnews #Water
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Revealed: the ‘catastrophic scale’ of sewage spills in England and Wales https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/22/catastrophic-scale-sewage-spills-england-and-wales #EnvironmentAgency #Waterindustry #Environment #ThamesWater #SevernTrent #Pollution #TimFarron #Business #Politics #UKnews #Water
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Four tonne gate lifted into place on River Trent fish pass
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65850004
#RiverTrent #Fish #Eels #ColwickCountryPark #Nottinghamshire #FishPass #RadialGate #EnvironmentAgency #TrentGatewayPartnership #Engineering #Wildlife