Up Sewage Creek : Save the river Severn from Pollution

Up Sewage Creek needs to raise £2000 to continue to monitor and ‎protect our precious river Severn from sewage pollution. ‎

We are a group of Shrewsbury residents who are striving to clean-up the ‎Severn. Since 2021, we’ve donated our time and our money to hold Severn ‎Trent Water to account for sewage dumping. We’ve succeeded in making ‎pollution a key local issue for councillors and our new MP. ‎

Now we need YOUR help to buy more vital water testing kits. ‎

For the last two years we’ve been water testing along the River Severn ‎around Shrewsbury including her tributaries the Perry, the Rad and the Rae ‎Brook. We have collected and recorded data on nitrogen, phosphate, ph., ‎turbidity and temperature.

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Shockingly, no clean water has been found anywhere! ‎

We have been following the gold standard water testing methodology ‎prescribed by CaSTCo and have added our results to the national database ‎coordinated by the Anglers’ Trust. The information is being used to put ‎pressure on greedy water companies to their cease their neglect anassume ‎their responsibility to save our dying rivers. ‎

To continue our essential work we must raise money for ‎upgraded test kits. ‎

Sewage isn’t the only threat to our river’s health. Up Sewage Creek is ‎planning to do more extensive tests in our next phase to include testing for ‎pathogenic bacteria. The new kits will help us identify the sources of ‎pollution and enable us to better hold those responsible to account.

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We are angry that the river is being killed due to greed. We are angry that ‎ordinary residents are having to do this monitoring work. We are angry that ‎the regulators and Severn Trent are NOT fulfilling their obligations. We know ‎that unless we step up, the big polluters will continue to get away with using ‎the River Severn as a free dumping ground for their waste.

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If you’re angry too, please help us stand up for the river by donating. ‎

Every penny we raise will be spent on water testing equipment, reagents ‎and laboratory fees. Should there be any money left over, it will be put ‎towards local legal challenges relating to water pollution.

Up Sewage Creek is entirely run by volunteers and everyone involved ‎donates their time for free because we care about our precious river. If you ‎want to help us save the Severn please donate and share, share, share this ‎fundraiser!

Thank you!‎