Dead animals found in canal where children row
It's a very difficult issue, but it needs an overall strategy."Keane said the animals were predominantly found with E. coli and botulism, and that the most stagnant stretch was within the locks around Boston Manor Park. "All councillors in Brentford will be concerned about this," he said.The Canal and River Trust said it aimed to remove any dead animal as quickly as possible.
- ▪It's a very difficult issue, but it needs an overall strategy."Keane said the animals were predominantly found with E. coli and botulism, and that the most stagnant stretch was within the locks around Boston Manor Park.
- ▪"All councillors in Brentford will be concerned about this," he said.The Canal and River Trust said it aimed to remove any dead animal as quickly as possible.
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Dead animals found in canal where children rowImage caption, One of the animals Paul Keane says his rowing groups passed in the same spot day after dayByGem O'ReillyLondonPublished1 minute agoResidents in Brentford have raised concerns about sewage flowing into the local canal network, with dead animals washing up over the summer.Paul Keane, general manager of watersports charity Brentford Community Boathouse, told the Brentford and Syon Area Forum that the problem had been worsened by the "epidemic of heat" this summer.The animals were mostly found in the Brentford Lock basin, where the Grand Union Canal meets the River Thames."We saw dead foxes, dead ducks and there was a dead cat," Keane told BBC London.Image caption, Keane says the water has to be hygienic if children are going to…
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