Category Archives: Sewer Overflows

Ongoing sewage dumping scandal

Not much has improved since a Belfast Telegraph article in 2023 reported NI Water’s fine [...]

Choked by Sewage, Strained by Agriculture

River Lagan and Belfast Lough: Choked by Sewage, Strained by Agriculture The River Lagan is [...]

The Untold Sewage Crisis at Drumbeg WwTW

Published by Quarterlands Group The residents of the Quarterlands Road area and surrounding communities are [...]

Northern Ireland’s Sewage Infrastructure Crisis Intensifies

A Reflection on Northern Ireland’s Sewage Infrastructure Crisis The recent announcement by NI Water to [...]

Why We Wrote to… The Ramsar Secretariat

A Call to Protect the Lagan Valley and Belfast Lough The Lagan Valley and Belfast [...]

Extrapolated Sewage Data

The Unseen Crisis: What We Learned from Extrapolated Sewage Data At the Quarterlands Group, we’ve [...]

Why YOU Must Object to the Blaris Project Development

Why You Must Object to the Blaris Project Before 7th February 2025 The proposed Blaris [...]

Why We Wrote to… NIEA

As part of our ongoing advocacy for the environment, the Quarterlands Group recently wrote to [...]

Belfast Lough’s Dirty Secret: How Planning Failures Are Flushing Our Future Away

Belfast Lough’s Dirty Secret: How Planning Failures Are Flushing Our Future Away Northern Ireland’s waterways [...]

Which bodies are responsible for sewage spills in NI?

The ultimate responsibility for allowing sewage on streets lies with a combination of organizations, regulatory [...]