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£100 a week dump drivers 'nonsense'
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• Allegations that lorry drivers are being paid as much as £100 a week to dump sewage sludge from the Manchester area to sites in Lancashire, made by striking ship crews this week,were described as "nonsense" by north-west hauliers. The sludge is normally dropped off in Liverpool by the city's three sludge disposal ships but these have been tied at their moorings because of a seven-week-long strike of crewmen, who claim the stoppage has resulted in 2000 tons of sludge per day having to be dumped by other means.
A check by CM with hauliers revealed no £100-a-week dumping operations. But an official for Manchester corporation admitted that space for nearly 190,000 tons of sludge has had to be found since the strike started and he said that much of it had been dumped in huge lagoons which had been dug at Flixton, near Manchester, dry beds. The official, however, would not reveal the name of any north-west haulage company or owner-driver removing the sludge.
Cllr E. Crank, chairman of Manchester's Corporation River Committee, told CM that the crewmen's claims that lorries were being used to dump sludge inland, being paid £100 a week for doing it, were "absolute nonsense".