Yorkshire Water has been fined £350,000 after one of its sewage pumping stations polluted a York watercourse and ordered to pay costs of £14,028.65 and a victim surcharge of £170.
Thames Water has been fined £3.34 million in court after millions of litres of raw sewage flooded two rivers near Gatwick. In addition to the £3.34 million fine, the judge ordered Thames Water to pay the Environment Agency’s costs of £128,961.05.
A raw sewage discharge which lasted 23 hours and killed 5,000 fish in a Northamptonshire river.has cost Anglian Water a total of £560,170 in court.
An early alert system implemented by Yorkshire Water to detect equipment failure before it occurs has successfully prevented possible pollution incidents in Gargrave, near Skipton and Balby, Doncaster.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1,600,750 for polluting a Bradford watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £170 and £22,112.79 in costs.
Anglian Water and a contractor have been fined a total of £60,000 after raw sewage leaked into a river killing more than 2,400 fish.
Anglian Water has been fined £18,000, ordered to pay £10,957.80 in costs to the Environment Agency and a victim surcharge of £170 for the release of raw sewage into a river which went on for several hours.
Thames Water has been fined £4 million at Aylesbury crown court this week after untreated sewage escaped from sewers below London into a park and a river.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.1 million and ordered to pay £27,073 in costs for illegally discharging sewage that polluted the River Ouse near York as a result of a pump failure.
Southern Water has apologised for a pollution incident after pumps failed at its Brook Road Pumping Station in Swalecliffe, Kent, resulting in the imposition of a £500,000 fine in court yesterday.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.