Discharge of effluent to the English Channel at Brighton and Hove - call in request turned down.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 June 2006-UK Government: Discharge of effluent to the English Channel at Brighton and Hove - call in request turned down(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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A request that Defra Secretary of State David Miliband 'call in' for his own determination four applications to discharge treated sewage effluent, and sewage effluent in an emergency, into the English Channel at Brighton and Hove has been turned down.

The four applications by Southern Water to the Environment Agency concern proposed discharges from new wastewater treatment works at Brighton and Hove and wastewater pumping stations at Marine Drive, Portobello and Black Rock.

The Secretary of State can call in applications when objections to such proposals are lodged. The criteria for determining whether a call in is appropriate are that the proposed discharge should be of more than regional significance, and raise novel or unusual issues which have not been publicly debated in another context. The Secretary of State found that the Southern Water applications did not satisfy these criteria....

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