Malton, Norton and Old Malton flood events 2012 – 2024, and some videos from the Yorkshire Water Brawby hall of shame. What better time to review the ongoing sewage pollution of Brawby village by Yorkshire Water.

NEWS: Yorkshire Water is dumping raw sewage into the river Derwent. See the latest records: visitmaltonsewer.co.uk

The old ones are the best:

Ryedale Flood Defence Machine – 3D Working Model. Designed and built in a shed in Brawby and deployed (regularly since 2015) to calm public fears caused by the delayed implementation of the recommendations contained in the Arup report. The RFDM’s latest operation was on County Bridge, Malton, during the most recent chaos caused by the multi-Agency Malton, Norton and Old Malton Pumping Plan in December 2023 and January 2024.

Ryedale Sausage Fishing Championships 2019 2024 dates to be announced shortly!
Does what it says on the tin. Stocks of the Derwent Sausage Minnow are thriving thanks to the raw sewage being pumped into the river by Yorkshire Water. Join the craze that’s sweeping the nation! Sausage fishing is for everyone, not just for Christmas! Music: “I Took A Walk” by Billy Jenkins. Used by kind permission.

Yorkshire Water – Broken Promises. My first video edit experiment in 2013 and the message is simple: Yorkshire Water bullshits its customers with promises that it breaks in the next breath. There are more colourful ways to describe what they do. Music by Matthew Bourne.

Scott, from Yorkshire Water, litter-picking condoms and sanitary towels that discharge from Yorkshire Water’s Waste Water Treatment Works in Brawby, North Yorkshire. See photos of the detritus and gunge that were pulled from the polluted ditch on Friday 8 February 2013.

Midge Over Troubled Water: is a boring video of a midge flying over water standing in the Brawby sewer drainage ditch. More importantly, however, I have updated the video description which now identifies a fatal flaw in the Brawby sewerage system, not identified by us in 2013. This fault leads to pollution by Yorkshire Water, pure and simple, and a criminal offence. I urge you to read this new description.

Brawby Sewer CCTV Inspection – The Movie! (trailer…): CCTV of a section of the Brawby sewer (since replaced) in 2013. Soundtrack, ‘Terraced Fast Food’ is from the Billy Jenkins CD ‘I Am A Man From Lewisham’, featuring internationally renowned tuba player Oren Marshall. Oren has played with every major orchestra in London, as well as with the Bolshoi Theatre Soloists, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Ballet. As a member of London Brass (whom he joined in 1987) he has made numerous recordings, toured worldwide several times, played six Proms concerts and performed for the Queen, Prince Charles, the German Chancellor and the Pope.

Brawby Sewer CCTV Inspection – The Movie! (trailer 2). Soundtrack: ‘Folk House’ by Reflektor (Jan Kopinski) from the live film and music project ‘Mirrors’, commissioned by Opera North with funding from Jazz Services. Special and big thank you to Jan for permission to use this beautiful music.

The Yorkshire Water Sewage Treatment Works? Written and composed by Stanley Bad, performed by Lynda Beast. Recorded at the gates of the Yorkshire Water Sewage Treatment Works, York Road Industrial Estate, Malton, North Yorkshire, June 2017.

These videos and documents show that almost no work of any practical significance has been carried out by Yorkshire Water, North Yorkshire Council, and the Environment Agency, to prevent sewer flooding and pollution in our towns (and in Brawby) since 2012. More videos coming soon…

The Malton, Norton and Old Malton Flood Study 2015 (aka the Arup report), is the North Yorkshire equivalent of the Lindisfarne Gospels. It is both illuminating and a revelation. It explains (for those who want to know) the way to remove sewage pollution from our towns, streets, gardens, and homes, and stop the emotional trauma, disruption and travel chaos caused by the operation of the Malton and Norton and Old Malton Pumping Plan. The TOP SECRET plan is blocking progress and allowing and enabling Yorkshire Water to declare ‘pollution business as usual’ and evade its duty to upgrade its sewers, sewage pumping stations, and Malton Waste Water Treatment Works – and the antiquated Brawby sewerage system.

Malton and Norton and Old Malton Flood Study by Arup 2015

“Whilst local surface water flooding may not affect as many properties as would flood from the River Derwent, sewer flooding from the overloaded combined sewer network makes it particularly unpleasant for the residents and businesses affected;”

It is “particularly unpleasant for the residents“ because it is sewage!