Ewell

Ewell wants to stop sewage being dumped into the Hogsmill

Both the northern and southernmost parts of the Epsom & Ewell Parliamentary constituency, represented by Ewell in the north and Leatherhead in the south, are blight by treated and untreated sewerage being dumped into its waterways. For a village whose very name is derived from a local spring the Hogsmill is one of the few natural wonders that residents can use for recreational purposes in an otherwise urban area. How ironic – and how scandalous – it is that the Hogsmill - a river that is so full of chemicals and so fails the Environment Agency’s measures on water quality is the very river in which the famous Victoria painter John Everett Millais placed his famous subject Ophelia in what is one of the most important works of the mid-nineteenth century and cited for its beauty and its accurate depiction of a natural landscape!