The fly-fishing enthusiast and environmental activist, who played Prince Andrew in the popular drama, claimed that Southern Water ought to have made infrastructure improvements long ago to avoid having its sewers overflowed by severe weather.
Rather, sewage has been permitted to overflow into one of Earth’s rarest environments, the River Test, a chalk stream.
“Every year they say it’s a special year and it won’t happen again,” he said to the News. It is absurd. They tell deceptive lies.
According to Southern Water, it had to let untreated sewage run into the river in order to prevent sewage from backing up into people’s houses at its Fullerton wastewater treatment plant, which is close to Andover.
Water corporations are currently allowed by law to discharge raw sewage during periods of excessive rainfall.
