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 blighted by treated and untreated sewage being dumped into their 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 scandalous it is, then, that the Hogsmill - a river that is so full of chemicals it falls far short of the Environment Agency’s measures on water quality - is the very river in which the famous Victorian 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!