River Action, an anti-pollution charity, is behind the legal action
The Environment Agency is being taken to the High Court over claims it has failed to protect the River Wye from agricultural pollution. River Action, an anti-pollution charity, said the EA is allowing destructive levels of nutrients from organic manure to enter the river and has applied for a judicial review against the agency.
Charles Watson, chairman and founder of River Action, said: “The severe ecological collapse of the iconic River Wye is one of the great environmental scandals of our times. The sickening tragedy is that this could have been seriously mitigated had the EA enforced existing environmental regulations to prevent the excess application of animal waste on land that was already oversaturated with nutrients.
It said the EA is failing to apply the Farming Rules for Water, which prohibit applications of “organic manure or manufactured fertiliser” to farmland in a way that would raise nutrient levels above what is “needed by the crop and the soil”. The charity also believes the EA is in breach of the habitat regulations by not applying rules to fulfil its requirements.
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