Somerset supplier to national supermarkets fined £29k for polluting watercourse plus £8k in costs
Somerset farm business Alvis Brothers Ltd, of Lye Cross Farm, Redhill, has been ordered to pay £37,184 for polluting a tributary of the Congresbury Yeo.
Sewage discharges cost Severn Trent Water £1.5 million+ in court
Severn Trent Water was yesterday fined £1.5 million and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £58, 365 for sewage discharges from 4 sewage treatment works in Worcestershire between February and August 2018.
New report warns pollution is biggest threat to freshwater habitats
A new report is warning that that waterbodies and freshwater habitats across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being devastated by poor water quality caused by agricultural waste, raw sewage, and pollution from abandoned mines.
Thames Water reports improving performance in a challenging environment
Thames Water is reporting an “improving performance in a challenging environment” with the publication of its half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2021 - but the company has acknowledged its performance is off track in waste metrics with serious pollutions and sewer flooding affected by the extreme impact of climate change.
National infrastructure Commission warns over climate change - more flood management and drainage assets likely to be needed
The National infrastructure Commission is warning that climate change will continue to increase the risk of flooding and pressure on flood risk management and drainage infrastructure - highlighted by recent surface water flooding events over the summer.
Ofwat : water companies make progress in cutting leaks, but more to do on pollution, flooding and outages
Water companies have made progress towards meeting challenging targets set by the regulator to tackle issues such as leakage, but some companies’ environmental records are still not good enough, according to the latest annual assessment of water companies’ performance by Ofwat.
Environment Agency warns reduced funding is impacting its ability to deal with pollution incidents
The Environment Agency says that its attendance at pollution incidents is reducing as funding to deal with them has been reduced. The EA is warning that more serious pollution incidents are caused by activities it does not regulate and that “resources are needed to fund this work because one day one could be catastrophic.”
Housing company fined £200,000 for polluting Huddersfield watercourse with silt
Miller Homes Ltd has been fined £200,000 for polluting a Huddersfield watercourse for more than 1km, after an investigation by the Environment Agency. The firm was previously fined £100,000 in 2016 for a similar offence in 2013 at the same site.
Sewage discharge costs Thames Water £4m+ in court
Thames Water Utilities Ltd has been fined £4 million and ordered to pay the prosecution costs of £90,713 for discharging an estimated half a million litres of raw sewage into the Seacourt and Hinksey streams in Oxford on 24 and 25 July 2016.
Ofwat warns on storm overflows - current levels of discharges into rivers cannot continue
Water sector regulator Ofwat has said that the current levels of storm overflow discharges into rivers cannot continue and must be tackled by the water sector.