INDETERMINACY by John Cage
Performed by Stewart Lee, voice, Tania Caroline Chen, piano and Steve Beresford, piano and objects. Saturday 1st Feb. 2025, 3:30pm, National Centre for Early Music, York.
– a one-off event to highlight the sewage pollution of the River Derwent SSSI in Malton and Norton, by Yorkshire Water, North Yorkshire Council and the Environment Agency.
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Here is the Yorkshire Water sewage spill data for Malton, Norton and Old Malton in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. 2024 data available in March 2025. The figures are taken from the Environment Agency EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) records and The Rivers Trust Sewage Map. Spill data is submitted by Yorkshire Water and confirms that the Yorkshire Water sewerage system for the towns of Malton and Norton is not fit for purpose.
The EA and Rivers Trust data for Yorkshire is complemented by the Yorkshire Water Live Storm Overflow Map. More about the map here.
The EDM records show the number and duration of sewage spills into the river Derwent SSSI which amounts to thousands of hours each year due to the lack of capacity in the sewerage system to accomodate the volume of sewage produced by the towns.
WARNING: Malton and Norton and Old Malton (and River Derwent SSSI) are facing an environmetnal disaster: If the Barrett Taylor Wimpey planning application for 645 houses on land adjoining Norton Lodge, Norton, and the Fitzwilliam Trust Corporation application for 200 houses in Malton are approved, the sewage will be discharged into the river. The Malton sewerage system (and sewage treatment works) does not have the capacity to treat the additional volume of sewage.
Yorkshire Water must insist that the Local Planning Autority (North Yorkshire Council) attach a condition to any planning permission granted – that the Yorkshire Water (Malton) sewerage system must be upgraded to increase treatment capacity by at least 30% prior-to either new development being brought into use.
Reason: to prevent wholesale sewage pollution of the River Derwent SSSI SAC by Yorkshire Water, and prevent an increase in sewage pollution of the wider Malton and Norton environment.
Yorkshire Water sewage ‘spill’ data for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Yorkshire Water Live Storm Overflow Map
Environment Agency EDM Records (Links to individual years)
Malton, Norton and Old Malton Pumping Plan and the Arup report