Sad day for the Trent. Makes you wonder if there is any hope for our rivers in such an overcrowded land.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8293898.stm

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But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Matthew 19:26

My thoughts go out to the trent anglers, conservationists and wildlife watchers. Anyone who enjoys life on the river, they must be heartbroken.

This pollution was obviously caused by neglect on some company's part. Industrial uses of cyanide include precious metal refining.

Something went wrong and someone will pay. Let's see the Angling Trust/Fish Legal go into action.

Salmon are running the Trent these days did you all know.

Ron Clay - Life member of Angling Trust - Are you?

Ugh.

This sounds very much like what happened to the Wandle in the mid 1990s - cyanide coming into the top of an STW and knocking out the biological function.

Hope the water company can divert their ongoing treatment needs elsewhere or hold it in storm tanks, otherwise the river may be running with sewage for days... they ought also to have had sensors at the top of the works to detect the incoming cyanide. There must have been quite a lot of it to knock out the STW and continue to pose an environmental threat once it had entered the river.

One more for the Angling Trust to get their teeth into!

Theo

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How many times have we seen similar head-lines this year? (several times) I also share the pain and heartbreaking tragedy of any river pollution! Lets hope the perpetrators of this pollution on the Trent, are dealt with severely!
Although, that's no consolation for loosing the natural fish stock of the River!

There must be an answer to stopping this kind of thing happening, over and over, again and again.

I'm really saddened by the thought that this could happen anywhere on any river!

Mostyn

That's an absolute tragedy and a spit in the face for all those who have worked hard to bring the Trent back to being a river in which fish can thrive. Sounds like a very nasty incident too.

Very sad to hear this.

Disaster.....................someone should have their b*ll***s in the vice for this........................birdsnest

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It is hideous of course. But there is plenty of hope for rivers- nearly all the rivers I fish in Yorkshire are far better than they were in the 70s when I first fished them. I grew up within a stone's throw of the Aire near Castleford- it was devoid of any life , as was the Calder.They are full of fish now thank God.

any word on how far the spill reached and what caused the spill ?

sad day for anglers

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Very sad day for anglers.