ARE YOU POLLUTING LONDON’S STREAMS? Thames Water estimates that 1:20 houses in London have misconnected drains. Each house should have: • a waste water drain (for toilets, sinks, baths) which carries waste water to the sewage plant • a surface water, or storm, drain which takes water directly to the local river If the waste drain is connected to the surface drain local rivers become heavily polluted with untreated sewage effluent causing fungus to grow on the river bed, thereby damaging water life and causing health hazards to people using the rivers for recreational purposes. Check your drainpipes. If your outside waste pipe leads into a roof drainpipe or a grating at the bottom of the drainpipe then the connection is wrong and should be changed. A toilet waste pipe is usually larger in diameter than a roof drainpipe and often has an air vent at the top. Help us to reduce river pollution in London. Save the environment. www.environment-agency.gov.uk CHANGES TO LOCAL HEALTH SERVICES CHANGES TO CHASE FARM HOSPITAL Our local Totteridge Councillor, Richard Cornelius sat on the Joint Scrutiny Committee (Herts, Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Councils) and reports:- The fight continues to keep the Accident and Emergency Department and the Obstetric units open. There have been hundreds of hours of meetings and a sham consultation but the NHS is determined to go ahead with the re-configuration that could send tens of thousands of extra patients from Chase Farm Hospital Enfield to Barnet General Hospital and some routine surgery from Barnet to Enfield. Local Health Chiefs seem oblivious to the overcrowding at our local hospital and the congestion of the roads leading to it. There is no real indication that the rebuilding of Finchley Memorial Hospital and the upgrading of Barnet General Hospital will be delivered before the running down of other services. Your Totteridge Councillors and MP are still defending our local healthcare against these cuts Next Page >