It's a good shout in your response to quote UKHSA on adding LOAEL 45dBLden to the metrics “ more consistent with the current state of the evidence... also capture in a more
comprehensive way the adverse effects of noise attributable to noise for the purpose of the Health Impact Assessment".

Conceptual illustration from theconversation.com/pfas-in-preg...

They also imply that PFAS additions from Mogden are of limited relevance to meeting environmental quality standards for river water. Maybe we won't be told the TDRA tertiary treatment plant does nothing to remove them ? @munirawilson.bsky.social

The TDRA guys have written saying they may update their schematic to includes the river flows from the Heathrow area (Portlane Brook and Longford River) in relation to the drinking water intake points.

Why? Because, just like Truss, they will sacrifice anything for a smidgeon of potential ‘growth’. And because there is no care at all for nature in their dna. They will throw anything under the bus for some possible short-term human material benefit.

Plant taxonomy starts with learning the names and cultural stories of plants as a child. After that botanic gardens and herbaria are the places to learn. The Kew Herbarium needs to stay at Kew Gardens. The authors of that report want to move it to an industrial estate in Reading. That's the failure.

And so for pregnancies in whales and dolphins too, apparently !
"The positive coefficient for sex indicates that males have higher PFAS concentrations than females."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The developer's ES on visual assessment says "some change but one that is not significant". Increased traffic in the lanes may disturb the character more.

How much is in your drinking water ?

Has anyone demonstrated the damage to the views from Rousham ? The developer's photomontages don't seem damning (but then they wouldn't). I'd be more upset at lack of scrutiny of PFAS from historic fire-fighting foam at US bases which seems to be concerning people from Okinawa to New Mexico.

The photomontages from the statue of the Dying Gladiator aren't showing overwhelming damage to me (but then the developers presumably wait until full leaf development before taking the baseline pics) "to be viewed at arms length" see the dashed yellow line !

“They often raise the alarm to councils and the Environment Agency and when no action is taken they stop reporting it, because they lose faith in the system and give up on the expectation that the EA is capable of protecting them and the environment.”

Logging in and using the edit function and picking whichever of the aerial view options looks best !

And I think openstreetmap has a footpath running over the top of the rubbish pile down to a crossing under the A34 along the riverbank !

Thames Water TDRA tells me that next week they should respond to my request for details of their data on PFAS compounds in the Thames at the abstraction point and in the effluent water after treatment by their trial Mogden pilot plant. They had told Ofwat it should have been in summer consultation!