One of the ghastly things about unusual weather events is that they sometimes bring problems that are far worse than we ever expected. My partner’s house was flooded last February 2014 and the ground floor remained a building site waiting for the illusive builders right through to November. However when the cold, sewage filled water seeped up through the floor boards, I had no idea that further downstream a little boy was losing his life to that same flood. I met Zane’s father when out training for my 300 mile Jarrow to Westminster walk this summer. In February, he and his family were rushed to hospital suffering from poisoning after the water rose up through the landfill site next to their riverside home. 7 year old Zane never woke up and his Dad Kaye is now paralysed from the waist down having been poisoned by hydrogen cyanide, a highly dangerous chemical gas used in warfare and executions. www.truthaboutzane.com
Zane died 10 miles down stream from the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and his local authority (Spelthorne) has so far been unable to answer the question of why this tragedy happened. It is the role of local authorities to ensure that landfill sites are not a public health risk and winter and the risk of flooding is coming. my plea to RBWM is to review and ensure the decontamination of landfill sites in the Borough? Do they contain poisons that will be released if there are more floods this winter? Should they be holding landfill site owners to account and just what is buried in them anyway?
Zane died 10 miles down stream from the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and his local authority (Spelthorne) has so far been unable to answer the question of why this tragedy happened. It is the role of local authorities to ensure that landfill sites are not a public health risk and winter and the risk of flooding is coming. my plea to RBWM is to review and ensure the decontamination of landfill sites in the Borough? Do they contain poisons that will be released if there are more floods this winter? Should they be holding landfill site owners to account and just what is buried in them anyway?