Therese has been at Martlesham Creek this morning, meeting the constituent who has recently been sampling water and has raised concerns about water quality and potential e-coli. She asked senior staff from Anglia Water and the Environment Agency to join her as well as East Suffolk councillor, Chris Blundell.
Therese said: "It was a good opportunity to see the situation first-hand. The Environment Agency explained that pollution will not only be coming from humans, but from agriculture and wildlife. Especially wild birds that feed from the mudflats."
"I will be following up with Suffolk County Council from a public health point of view, asking them to consider putting signage by the sluice. This isn’t, of course, a designated bathing water but I’m confident though that with the designation of the bathing water at Waldringfield, coupled with the government’s Plan for Water, that we will see more investment locally to improve water quality."
