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Glastonbury sewage causes big stink in UK court
Published time: 17 Dec, 2015 17:43
Edited time: 17 Dec, 2015 17:46
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Festival-goers urinate against a fence at the Glastonbury Festival 2008 in Somerset in south west England June 27, 2008. © Luke MacGregor

Festival-goers urinate against a fence at the Glastonbury Festival 2008 in Somerset in south west England June 27, 2008. © Luke MacGregor / Reuters
For every memorable Glastonbury performance - Orbital in ‘94, Bowie in 2000, Blur in 2009 - there is a huge pile of human waste. That darker, smellier side of the world’s largest greenfield festival has turned up the noses of local prosecutors.

Glastonbury attracts 175,000 revellers (almost) each year to Worthy Farm in Somerset and uses approximately 3 million gallons of water.

Since what goes in must come out, you can only imagine the queue for the loo.

The festival skipped 2012 because there were not enough portable toilets due to the London Olympics, but it was 2014 when local council chiefs said festival organizers didn’t get their s**t together when it came to handling waste, according to the Bristol Post.

A network of streams at the Worthy Farm site are under the watchful eye of the UK Environment Agency and accusations of environmental breaches by people not using designated toilets have been levied at the festival.

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Last year was wet and muddy, save a few gorgeous moments of sun with legends like Robert Plant playing in the foreground, and it seems too many people were streaming into the bushes to make puddles of their own.

Strategic operations director Christopher Edwards appeared before Yeovil magistrates this week to represent the music and arts festival, which is accused of failing to meet environmental standards.

The charges are that organizers “caused or knowingly permitted a water discharge activity or groundwater activity, namely the discharge of human sewage derived from the Glastonbury Music Festival.”

The case has been adjourned until the New Year.

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Glastonbury provides festival-goers with a number of different types of toilets, including Compost Loos, Portaloos, and female urinals known as She-Pees.

In 2014, the same year the prosecution claim rules were breached, organizers shelled out £600,000 on odorless "super loos" and increased the number of Long-Drop toilets which store waste for composting.

“We have 31 units now, they cost £20,000 each, which is a lot of money but they don’t have to be touched during the whole week of the festival,” founder Michael Eavis said at the time. “There’s no smell, a huge capacity - it’s a fantastic achievement. It’s fundamentally a huge improvement.”

Eavis has been running the festival on and off since 1970 with a “leave no trace” ideology.

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A big hand at Glastonbury: A festival the size of a small town requires a crack team to keep the show rocking
Oscar Quine met some of them

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Friday 28 June 2013 00:00 BST

A big hand at Glastonbury: A festival the size of a small town requires a crack team to keep the show rocking

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A man jumps over a fire that has been lit inside the stone circle as people gather for sunset at Glastonbury Festival

Nearly 180,000 people, equivalent to the population of Oxford and then some, are descending on Worthy Farm this weekend to watch thousands of acts across 57 stages. It’s an annual ritual that seems from the outside to be pulled off largely by that cheery gnomic-looking fellow, and the daughter he’s roped in now that he’s pushing 80. But while Michael and Emily Eavis are the public faces of Glastonbury, they of course have a great deal of help.

Planning goes on year round, with logistics now overseen by corporate partner Live Nation. And while the Pyramid Stage doubles as a cow shed when the party’s over, some things require months of preparation: the toilets start being dug in January.

It’s a big-money operation: in 2011, the last year it was held, the festival turned over more than £32m. Nevertheless, the question remains: how the hell do they make a city of tents appear for what always seems to be the rainiest weekend of the year, and then seamlessly disappear without the whole thing sinking into the m&d?

Steve Russell-Yarde, the off-site manager, is responsible for the massive logistical operation of getting everybody into and out of the festival through country lanes. He says it’s all down to experience, attention to detail and organisation. “It’s the same as a small town. We have the top-level management team, which might not be called a council but can deal with pretty much anything. Unless there’s a major incident, the emergency services will be looking for something to do.”

In 2012, he brought his experience to the Olympics, managing eight park and ride facilities with his firm CTM. But Glastonbury, he says, is unique. “If we came up with this now, on this site, people would laugh at us. But Glastonbury has grown organically over the years.”

Mr Russell-Yarde works out of the new Event Control Centre, a converted barn next to Eavis’s farmhouse where the fire service, stage management, security and police all oversee what’s going on. They look a bit like cows in pens. At one end, operatives flick through CCTV images on large plasma screens in studied silence.

Shirley Eden, a police inspector who has been involved with the festival on and off since 1993, says the facility is a great help. “There’s not really a line between us and the organisers. It’s a joined-up operation. We work closely with them. It’s their event and their responsibility for public safety.”

The main issues the police deal with are thefts, largely committed by opportunists, and drug dealing, in some part by organised gangs who infiltrate the festival. The organisers and police work from a colour-coded, grid-referenced map. “It works well. We have powers they don’t, and as organisers they can do things that we can’t. Together we can deal with anything that crops up, says Ms Eden. “I wouldn’t send my children here in 1993, but I would now.”

Crime aside, another unsightly but inevitable factor of the festival is human waste. Somewhere on site, there is a multimillion-gallon sewage tanker big enough to play five-a-side football in – known as the “Stadium of Shite”. The contents of the on-site toilets are deposited here for the duration of the festival before being taken to a sewage treatment facility.

James Stent is one of the people responsible for, well, getting the shite to the stadium. He drives one of 20 tractors, hauling a 3,000-gallon tanker with a hose that two co-workers poke into submerged tanks behind the portable loos. “I’ve got the glamorous job,” he jokes. “The smell is a problem but I just think about the money and try to avoid the splash back.”

Megan Lowry has been helping out one of the toilet cleaning companies owned by a family member since 2005 when she was 13. “We only do the backstage toilets so they’re not so bad, and the shifts are six hours so we get to see some of the bands,” she says.

Although it takes many thousands to pull off Glastonbury, however, Mr Russell-Yarde says there’s still one truly essential person. “Michael [Eavis] is the key person we all work too. He knows absolutely everything about what’s going on – and anyone who thinks otherwise is very much mistaken.”

What needs doing

Transport

With a support staff of seven, Steve Russell-Yarde, pictured, manages traffic direction, coordinates the 1,000 coach and bus dropoffs and the 50,000 vehicle car park – and has 27 CCTV cameras and a helicopter at his disposal.

Utilities

More than 11 million gallons of water and as much electricity as the city of Bath will be used. Levels of the 1 million-litre onsite reservoir and kilowatt usage is monitored online. While Bristol Water will pump in the extra supplies needed.

Rubbish

The 15,000 bins, brightly painted by volunteers, collect nearly 1,900 tonnes of litter. The clean-up operation costs £780,000. From 6am, lines of litter-pickers move across the fields, sorting ankle-deep debris into recycling bags.

Police

Until 1990, Glastonbury was essentially lawless, with no police officers on site. That changed when violence broke out between security guards and travellers, known in festival folklore as the Battle of Yeoman’s bridge. In a 24-hour period there are 230 CID officers working over three shift patterns and six mounted police. There is a helicopter on standby.

Toilets

There are 3,225 toilets on the site – and enough loo roll to stretch from London to Baghdad, though it still seems to never be enough. A team of 300 clean the loos around the clock and try to keep the toilet roll topped up, kitted out with industrial strength cleaning products and 24 boxes of toilet roll. Sewage used to have to be taken 40 miles to Avonmouth for processing but, as part of efforts to reduce Glastonbury’s carbon footprint, investment in local facilities means it is all now processed in an 8-mile radius.

 

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Angmo is the biggest shitter and most stinker.

 

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Yucks! Ang Moh SAI!

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It’s not the sort of job you dream of as a child, being a Glastonbury Festival sewage worker. Standing there in the sun, stoically raking jobbies through a grate. I met some a few years ago, though, and they were hilarious. Like undertakers, or trauma surgeons from A&E. Their days are spent in a forgotten corner of the site, next to a vast, red, metal cylindrical thing, which has the words “Stadium of Shite” written on the top. Before each festival, they said, the lads would normally have a five-a-side football match in it. Once it starts though, well, there
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Glastonbury Festival organisers face court over human sewage charge

By Central Somerset Gazette | Posted: December 16, 2015
Glastonbury Festival organisers face court over human sewage charge

Glastonbury Festival organisers face court over human sewage charge

ORGANISERS of the Glastonbury Festival are to be prosecuted for not complying with environmental requirements for the discharge of human sewage from the site.

Strategic Operations Director for the festival, Christopher Edwards, appeared before Somerset Magistrates at Yeovil to represent the company which hosts the festival at the Worthy Farm site in Pilton.

The company was charged that on or before June 29, 2014 at the Glastonbury Festival, otherwise than under, and to the extent authorised by an environmental permit, caused or knowingly permitted a water discharge activity or groundwater activity, namely the discharge of human sewage derived from the Glastonbury Music Festival.

The prosecution was being brought contrary to the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010.
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The court was also told that the prosecution was also considering bringing another charge to court in respect of an alleged offence committed in 2015 which could be taken into consideration.

No pleas were entered and the prosecution and defence made a joint application for the case to be adjourned until the New Year for further progress to be made and for the matter to be heard by a District Judge at Yeovil due to the complex issues involved.

The magistrates agreed to the request and adjourned the case until January 14.

 

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So much worse then PRC Chinaman!

 

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