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Silt pollution on the River Wensum in Norfolk

About two years ago, a breach in the river bank caused an outflow of water into an old drainage channel some way above Bintree Mill and effectively drained the river below the mill. The Bintry Mill Trout Fishery (BMTF) immediately informed the Environment Agency and asked permission to fix it. The EA refused permission and threatened legal action against anyone attempting to repair it. It took the EA over 18 months to fix the problem, during which time hundreds of tons of sand and silt were deposited on the vital fish spawning ground downstream. This video shows the resulting damage. Note the almost complete lack of fish life.