HC Deb 23 May 1990 vol 173 c263W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to require the installation of phosphate stripping works at all sewage works; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Trippier

The National Rivers Authority is responsible for setting the quality standard of sewage works effluents. The Department has no plans to alter the present case-by-case system whereby phosphorus stripping is required in the few locations such as the Norfolk Broads and Loch Neagh where the receiving waters show signs of nutrient enrichment.