Responsibilities:
Chapter 1 – Oil Pollution in my Garden – 2021

Part 1 Oil Slick March 2021

Oil is everywhere. We use it and when we lose it, catastrophe happens, but in our back yard . . . ? This shocking and […]

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Part 2

Episode 2 – Even nature can’t send it packing! Seven weeks after the initial flood of black oil down the side of my organic garden […]

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Part 3 Oil Slick 8 Weeks Later

Two months after the first cascade of black, treacle oil into my organic haven I continue to hope for signs of its absence. Videoing this […]

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Part 4 After Rainfall May 2021

There is a hope that rain will clear the road drains of the coagulated oil which has been depositing itself into my once organic garden […]

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Part 5 Oil 10 Weeks later

A bright walk down the garden turns into a reluctant trudge as the stench of oil hits the throat, lining it’s presence. Each step taken […]

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Part 6 Oil Pollution 14 Weeks Later

During lockdown in 2020 I repaired the gully which is used as a storm drain from the roads nearby.  Spending hours every day I cemented […]

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Part 7 High Ways Low Ways

Does flushing really work?

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Part 8 Damsel in Distress

The natural harmony of the ditch banks is disrupted.

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Part 9 Sewage and Wildlife

Wild life continues to suffer.

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Part 10 Oil and Silt 18 Weeks Later

Clearing the ditch is always hard work, but this year – repulsive.

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Part 11 Oil 20 weeks later

Wild swimming may be all the rage??  Outrageous??

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Part 12 Sewage Mix-up 20 Weeks Later

A second sewage exodus incurs another visit from the Water Company.

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Part 13 Oil 21 Weeks Later

The flow of kerosene and associated oil scum still continues relentlessly.

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Six months is a long time

How long does it take to disperse a kerosene tank of its 1000 litres of heating oil into the environment around and beneath it?

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Where did it go?

Nine months later and the end of 2021, wanting the oil to stop appearing. It has, but what has happened to it?

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