Water quality in the river not ideal for swimming

Thames21 and the River Roding Trust launch water quality monitoring project on the lower Roding

Environmental charity Thames21 and the River Roding Trust are working together on a groundbreaking programme to identify, test and fix the most damaging sewage and road run-off outfalls on a ten-mile stretch of the River Roding – London’s third biggest river. This section of the Roding is impacted by more than a hundred outfalls that have the potential to feed pollution from road run off, misconnected properties and combined sewers into the rive…

Water quality in the river not ideal for swimming

Radio-Canada cautions against swimming in the river, considering the fecal coliforms, pharmaceuticals and forever chemicals found in water samples.